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What are Mendel's 3 principles?


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Mendel's inheritance law:

  1. To prove the theory of heredity, Mendel conducted experiments on Garden peas in the back of his garden.
  2. He did this by using 14 true-breeding pea plants with seven distinct features, each of which had two opposing traits.
  3. Mendel referred to genes as "factors" that parents pass down to their children.

Mendel's three inheritance laws:

  1. Law of Dominance: One of the alleles is dominant during the development of the heterozygote. In addition, the dominant allele manifests itself in the phenotypic. When homozygous tall plants with (TT) alleles are crossed with dwarf (tt) plants, all of the offspring plants are tall and carry genotype Tt tall dominant characteristic.
  2. Law of Segregation of Genes: Each allele splits during the production of gametes during meiosis. As a result, the characters are transferred to the gametes without being blended. Heterozygotes also generate several types of gametes, whereas homozygous individuals only have one type.
  3. Law of Independent Assortment: Mendel developed another set of laws called Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment, which was based on his observations on dihybrid crossings. "When two pairs of traits are joined in a hybrid, segregation of one pair of characters is independent of the other pair of characters," according to Mendel's law.

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