Question

Short / Long answer type questions.
Discuss Mendels laws of inheritance. Which one of these laws you consider the most important and why?

Answer 1

Mendel during his study on pea plants stated three laws of inheritance. These were:

1. Law of dominance: A dominant gene will express itself over the recessive gene.

2. Law of segregation: Parental genes are randomly separated to the germ cells such that each germ cell receives only one gene from each pair.

3. Law of independent assortment: Genes for different traits are sorted separately from one another such that the inheritance of one trait is not dependent on the inheritance of the other trait.

Out of these three laws, the law of segregation is the most important law because it has no exceptions and is universally accepted.