Which of these principles/laws explains why phenotypic and genotypic ratios can be different.
a. |
Independent Assortment. |
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b. |
Uniformity |
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c. |
Dominance |
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d. |
Equal segregation |
According to Mendel's law of independent assortment, alleles at
separate loci are inherited
independently.
This leads to the charactertistic
genotypic and phenotypic ratios.
For example, in
a dihybrid cross between two "double
heterozygotes" ( AaBb x AaBb
)
The genotypic ratios are 1 : 2 : 1 : 2 : 4 : 2
: 1 : 2 : 1
but the phenotypic ratios can be written as 9 "AB" :
3
"Ab" : 3 "aB" :
1
"ab".
Thus law of Inependent assortment will be the correct answer.
Thankyou.
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