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law of independent assortment

 
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–noun Genetics.
the principle, originated by Gregor Mendel, stating that when two or more characteristics are inherited, individual hereditary factors assort independently during gamete production, giving different traits an equal opportunity of occurring together.
Also called Mendel's second law, Mendel's law.

Origin:
1940–45
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law of independent assortment  
n.  See Mendel's law.
Men·del's law   (měn'dlz)   
n.  

  1. One of two principles of heredity first formulated by Gregor Mendel, founded on his experiments with pea plants and stating that the members of a pair of homologous chromosomes segregate during meiosis and are distributed to different gametes. Also called law of segregation.

  2. The second of these two principles, stating that each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes segregates during meiosis independently of the members of other pairs, so that alleles carried on different chromosomes are distributed randomly to the gametes. Also called law of independent assortment.

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Main Entry: law of independent assortment
Function: noun
: MENDEL'S LAW 2
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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law of independent assortment n.
See Mendel's law.

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law of independent assortment  
See under Mendel's law.
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