Question

What does this statement mean?

“Independent assortment alone would
find each individual chromosome in a
gamete that would be exclusively
maternal or paternal in origin.”

Answer 1

Solution

• Indepandant assortment gives idea about how pair of allele of same gene get separated/ assorted without affecting assortment of each others.
• This occure in meiosis I of anaphase
• Though assortment process is regarding to allele but alleles (allele pair) are present on homologous pair of chromosome.
• One chromosome come from mother egg cell and another from male sperm cell.
• So allele which are assorting are come from maternal and patternal chromosome.
• So both allele are exclusivily come from maternal and paternal chromosome.