AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Law of segregation is the second law of inheritance. This law explains that the pair of alleles segregate from each other during meiosis cell division (gamete formation) so that only one allele will be present in each gamete.

Detailed explanation-2: -In meiosis, the mother’s and the father’s genes are separated, and so the character alleles are separated into two distinct gametes.

Detailed explanation-3: -These ‘laws’ are now known to be due to key events that occur during meiotic division: The law of segregation describes how homologous chromosomes (and hence allele pairs) are separated in meiosis I.

Detailed explanation-4: -The physical basis of Mendel’s law of segregation is the first division of meiosis in which the homologous chromosomes with their different versions of each gene are segregated into daughter nuclei.