Question

How do Mendel's experiments show that traits are inherited independently?

Answer 1

Genes located on different chromosomes will be inherited independently of each other. Mendelobserved that, when peas with more than one trait were crossed, the progeny did not always match the parents. This is because differenttraits are inherited independently – this is the principle of independentassortment.

Answer 2

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It is observed that progeny of tall plants with round seeds and short plant with wrinkled seeds bears the progeny of all tall and round seeds in F1 generation . When F2 generation this dihybrid cross is raised it was observed that some F2 progeny are tall plants with round seeds and some were short plants with wrinkled seeds. New mixtures also appeared like tall plants and wrinkled seeds and short plant and round seeds. Thus tall/short trait and round wrinkled seeds traits are independently inherited.