Question

A woman with blonde curly hair married a man with black soft hair. All of their children in first-generation had black soft hair but next-generation children had different combinations is ratio 9:3:3:1. State the law that governs this expression.

Answer 1

The Law of independent assortment states that if the inheritance of more than one character is studied simultaneously, the factors or genes for each character assort out independently to the other gene or factor. The dihybrid cross of Mendel is a good example of independent assortment. The presence of new combinations suggests that the genes are assorted independently.