Question

how do mendel's experiment show that traits are inherited independently

Answer 1

While cross breading the two peas plants with many traits he noticed many variations in the F1 generation i.e. the generation produced after the cross breeding. For eg: when he crossed a tall pea plant with a short pea plant he noticed that most of the generation was tall. This shows that traits were inherited independently.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

*Mendel performed an experiment in which he took two

different characters like colour of the seeds and shape of the

seeds.

*He selected and crossed pea plants having round green seeds

(RRyy) with wrinkled yellow seeds (rrYY).This formed the

parental generation.

*In F1 generation, he got all the pea plants with Round yellow

seeds(RrYy).

*The F1 progeny were self pollinated.

*In F2 generation some plants had round yellow seeds, some

with round green seeds, some with wrinkled yellow seeds,

some with wrinkled green seeds.

They were found in the ratio of 9:3:3:1

*Thus there were recombination of traits .

*Round yellow and wrinkled green traits are independently

inherited.