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Title: How does chromosomal inheritance during meiosis explain Mendel’s law of independent assortment?
Post by: Kram2214 on Nov 17, 2013
In the figure below, you can see Mendel’s experiment again, this time superimposed on the events of meiosis and fertilization. How does chromosomal inheritance during meiosis explain Mendel’s law of independent assortment?


Title: How does chromosomal inheritance during meiosis explain Mendel’s law of independent assortment?
Post by: Ashie_x on Nov 17, 2013
Meiosis is a type of cell replication where new daughter cells are made a haploid chromosome number so half the usual number of chromosomes. In Mendel's law, a pair of homologous chromosomes are pulled apart and go to opposite sides of the cell. This separating in phase shows Mendel's idea because you receive half your chromosomes from each parent so therefore it is random. Hence, inheritance of alleles are independent and random, not affecting each other.


Title: How does chromosomal inheritance during meiosis explain Mendel’s law of independent assortment?
Post by: ultihunter on Nov 21, 2013
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Title: How does chromosomal inheritance during meiosis explain Mendel’s law of independent assortment?
Post by: mpayne on Nov 23, 2013
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Title: How does chromosomal inheritance during meiosis explain Mendel’s law of independent assortment?
Post by: ToriTurner1994 on Nov 25, 2013
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Title: How does chromosomal inheritance during meiosis explain Mendel’s law of independent assortment?
Post by: JunglePanther on Mar 23, 2014
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