Question

Mendel’s finding that the inheritance pattern for one trait had no effect on the inheritance pattern for another different trait became known as the:___________

Answer 1

Answer:

The Law of Independent Assortment

Explanation:

Gregor Mendel analyzed inheritance patterns by conducting experiments with pea breeding. After his first law, he decided to investigate two traits simultaneously, and then formulated what would later be called Mendel's Second Law, also called the Independent Assortment Law. This law states that factors (alleles) for two or more characteristics are distributed independently during gamete formation and combine at random.