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Explain how corn can be used as an example of Mendel's law of assortment

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Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment. To this point we have followed the expression of only one gene. Mendel also performed crosses in which he followed the segregation of two ... The phenotypes and general genotypes from this cross can be represented in the ... Let's use theexample of the yellow,
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Each kernel of corn inherits traits independently. Each kernel of corn receives one allele from each parent for the traits of color and texture. Corn can have multiple kernel colors because each kernel is independently formed.

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