Laws Flashcards
(3 cards)
Law of dominance
When two homozygous organisms with contrasting characteristics are crossed, all the individuals of the F1 generation will display the dominant trait. An individual that is heterozygous for a particular characteristic will have the dominant trait as the phenotype
Principle of segregation
An organism possesses two “factors” which separate or segregate so that each gamete contains only one of these “factors”
Principle of independent assortment
The various factors controlling the different characteristics are separate entities, not influencing each other in any way and sorting themselves out independently during gamete formation