Question

Mendel's law of independent assortment can be demonstrated by

Answer 1

Answer:the law of independent assortment can be explained with the help of dihybrid cross

Explanation:

the dihybrid cross shows that each trait is inherited independantly during the cross. this can be seen in the phenotype of the F2 generation

Answer 2

Mendel's law of independent assortment states that the alleles of two (or more) different genes get sorted into gametes independently of one another. In other words, the allele a gamete receives for one gene does not influence the allele received for another gene.

Example: Pea colour and pea shape genes

Let's look at a concrete example of the law of independent assortment. Imagine that we cross two pure-breeding pea plants: one with yellow, round seeds (YYRR) and one with green, wrinkled seeds (yyrr). Because each parent is homozygous, the law of segregation tells us that the gametes made by the wrinkled, green plant all are ry, and the gametes made by the round, yellow plant are all RY. That gives us F1 offspring that are all RrYy.

The allele specifying yellow seed color is dominant to the allele specifying green seed color, and the allele specifying round shape is dominant to the allele specifying wrinkled shape, as shown by the capital and lower-case letters. This means that the F1 end subscript plants are all yellow and round. Because they are heterozygous for two genes, the F1 dihybrids (di- = two, -hybrid = heterozygous).

A cross between two dihybrids (or, equivalently, self-fertilization of a dihybrid) is known as a dihybrid cross. When Mendel did this cross and looked at the offspring, he found that there were four different categories of pea seeds: yellow and round, yellow and wrinkled, green and round, and green and wrinkled. These phenotypic categories (categories defined by observable traits) appeared in a ratio of approximately 9:3:3:1.