Question

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Mendel found through his pea plant experiments that the offspring of two plants does not necessarily look exactly like the father plant, nor exactly like the mother plant. In the same way, you do not look identical to your birth mother, nor do you look identical to your birth father. Use the principle of independent assortment to explain why this happens.

Answer 1

Mendel crossed plants that were pure dominant for yellow seed and round seed coat with plants that were pure recessive for green and wrinkled. Next he crossed the offspring, which were all heterozygous. His results were nine yellow with round seeds, three yellow with wrinkled, three green with round seeds, and one green with wrinkled. These results lead to one of his theories, the Law of Independent Assortment. This law states that the alleles will go into gametes separately from one another. And if the gametes did not separate from one another, and move around, you would only have two results.