AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mendel’s law of independent assortment states that the alleles of two (or more) different genes get sorted into gametes independently of one another. In other words, the allele a gamete receives for one gene does not influence the allele received for another gene.

Detailed explanation-2: -Inherited, as related to genetics, refers to a trait or variants encoded in DNA and passed from parent to offspring during reproduction. Inheritance is determined by the rules of Mendelian genetics.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Law of Independent Assortment states that different pairs of alleles are passed onto the offspring independently of each other. Therefore, inheritance of genes at one location in a genome does not influence the inheritance of genes at another location.

Detailed explanation-4: -In other cases, each parent provides a different allele of a given gene, and the offspring is referred to as heterozygous ("hetero” meaning “different") for that allele. Alleles produce phenotypes (or physical versions of a trait) that are either dominant or recessive.