Question

Elucidate " Law of Independent Assortment". Explain how Mendel achieved it.

Answer 1

The Law of Independent Assortment states that when two pairs of traits are combined in a hybrid, one pair of characters segregates independent of the other pair of characters.
Mendel achieved this by conducting dihybrid crosses. He got a ratio of 9:3:3:1 in the F₂ generation with new recombinants, which were not present in the parents or F₁ generations. This shows that inheritance of one pair of alleles is independent of the other, thus generating new combinations or recombinants.