Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Concept Introduction: Independent assortment is one of the laws proposed by Mendel. Mendel proposed the law of independent assortment based on the results of dihybrid cross that “alleles at one locus tend to assort into gametes independently of alleles at other loci”.

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