Laws Flashcards
(3 cards)
1
Q
Law of dominance
A
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
2
Q
Principle of segregation
A
An organism possesses two “factors” which separate or segregate so that each gamete contains only one of these “factors”
3
Q
Principle of independent assortment
A
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
