Question

State and explain Mendel's postulates and laws of inheritance??​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Mendel's Laws of inheritance can be described as;

1. The Law of Dominance:

The offspring always exhibits a dominant trait. From the two alleles received from parents, the only dominant allele is expressed.

2. The Law of Segregation:

The two copies of each chromosome will be separated from each other, causing the two distinct alleles located on those chromosomes to segregate from one another.

3. The Law of Independent Assortment:

The traits inherited through one gene will be inherited independently of the traits inherited through another gene because the genes reside on different chromosomes that are independently assorted into daughter cells during meiosis.

Answer 2

The Mendel's four postulates and laws of inheritance are:

(1) Principles of Paired Factors

(2) Principle of Dominance

(3) Law of Segregation or Law of Purity of Gametes (Mendel's First Law of Inheritance) and

(4) Law of Independent Assortment (Mendel's Second Law of Inheritance).