Parental genotypes: RrYy x RrYy
Offspring genotypes: RRYY, RRYy, RRyy, RrYY, RRyy, rrYY, rrYy, rryy
The conclusion is incorrect because there is a chance that the offspring may have the genotype rryy, in which it has no dominant alleles.
Answer:
the "second law of Mendel", or principle of independent distribution, states that during the formation of gametes, each pair of alleles segregates independently of the other pairs.
Explanation:
Mendel's second Law is also known as the Law of Segregation, also as the Law of Equitable Separation, and also as the Law of Disjunction of the Alleles. This Second Law of Mendel is fulfilled in the second filial generation, that is to say, from the parents to the first generation, the First Law of Mendel is fulfilled, and after the children of the first generation this Second Law of Mendel is fulfilled.
This 2nd Law of Mendel, speaks of the separation of the alleles in each of the crossing between the members of the first generation, who would now become parental of the second generation, for the formation of a new child gamete with certain characteristics.
Since each allele is separated to constitute features that do not belong to the first filial generation, but to that of the parents. That is to say that many of the most obvious features in the recessive allele would be present when a generation leaps. All this in relative proportion to the number of individuals in the second subsidiary generation.
Answer:
Let's recall Mendel's law of independent assortment that states, "During the formation of gametes, alleles of genes assort independently into each gamete"
How can the random distribution of alleles result in a predictable ratio?
For example, We have a trait for flower color either yellow or white, and the alleles for the flower color are Y and y. The yellow flower color is a dominant trait, and be expressed if plant has YY or Yy genotype. We cross a plant with genotype Yy with another plant Yy.
P1 Yy x Yy
F1 YY : Yy: Yy: yy
Phenotype Yellow: yellow: yellow: white
Genotypic ratio 1 : 2 : 1
Phenotypic ratio 3 : 1
So, we see that phenotypic ratio is different from genotypic ratio. Although the distribution of alleles is random but still there are only four possible outcomes for a trait. Hence, we can predict the phenotypic and genotypic ratio of offspring by drawing a punnet square or gamete formation.
Mitosis, or cellular division and reproduction.