Question

Mendel's law of independent assortment says that the inheritance of one trait is not influenced by inheritance of another trait. Using what you know about meiosis, explain how you can observe the law of independent assortment in action.

Answer 1

The law of segregation lets us predict how a single feature associated with a single gene is inherited. ... When Gregor Mendel asked this question, he found that different genes were inherited independently of one another, following what's called the law of independent assortment.