Laws

Question 1

Law of dominance

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Principle of segregation

Answer 2

An organism possesses two “factors” which separate or segregate so that each gamete contains only one of these “factors”

Question 3

Principle of independent assortment

Answer 3

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