Mendel said that a pair of alternating or contrasting characters behave independently of other pair. elaborate by giving an suitable explanation for the same
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Traits are inherited independently.
• Mendel showed that traits are inherited independently by performing a cross between two diffeAnswer:
Explanation:rent traits using both dominant and recessive characters on a dihybrid cross.
• A dihybrid cross is one in which two different traits are crossed and studied.
• He crossed two different traits and the result came that neither of the characters is dependent on the other for sorting.
• He crossed a plant with round shape (dominant) and green color (recessive) peas with wrinkled shape (recessive) and yellow color (dominant) peas.
• In the cross, it was observed that the segregation (separation) of traits was not dependent on each other. The plant of the F2 generation has plants with any traits out of the two.
• It was round with green, round with yellow, wrinkled with green and wrinkled with yellow peas.
• It doesn’t matter, that, if one trait was dominant, then other has to be dominant too. It can be either dominant or recessive.
• This is also known as Independent Assortment