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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
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Explain the law of independent assortment with a dihybrid cross.

Solution

Law of independent assortment. According to this law, the factors of different pairs of contrasting characters, do not influence each other. They are independent of one another in their assortment to form new combination during gamete formation. 
If we cross (  dihybrid cross) a pea plant with yellow and smooth seeds with a pea plant with green and wrinkled seeds then we get two new combination and two parental combination in the F2 generation. Thus we can conclude that the characters assort independently and do not affect each other.




Result of dihybrid cross.