Question

Which of the following best describes Mendel's idea of segregation?

A. Male offspring receive traits only from the male parent.
B. Female offspring receive only form the male parent.
C. Each parent has two copies of each gene and passes on only one copy to its offspring.
D. Each parent has one copy of each gene. each offspring receives half of its genes from each parent.

Answer 1

C

Step-by-step explanation:

Since we know about mitosis and sexual reproduction, each parent passes on only one copy of the gene because they got a copy of a gene from each of their parent before, and the new child will end up with two genes, one from each parent.