Question

Describe, in your own words:

What is the law of independent assortment?

Why don’t alleles on the same chromosome violate the Law of Independent Assortment?

Answer 1

The Law of Independent Assortment states that during a dihybrid cross (crossing of two pairs of traits), an assortment of each pair of traits is independent of the other. In other words, during gamete formation, one pair of trait segregates from another pair of traits independently. this says that the alleles from gamete seperate during the formation of gametes, the alleles seperate independently of presence of other trias present simultaneously.

they donot voilate law of independent assortment becuase recombination occurs that allows the gene order is not altered. Instead, the result of recombination is that maternal and paternal alleles are combined onto the same chromosome. Across a given chromosome, several recombination events may occur, causing extensive shuffling of alleles