Question

While conducting experiments on pea plants, Mendel observed that the combination of traits in the offspring did not match up with the parents. How did Mendel explain this?

The Law of Segregation
The Principle of Independent Assortment
The Principle of Mitotic Division
The Principle of Sex Linked Traits

Answer 1

The Principle of Independent Assortment

Answer 2

The correct answer would be- The principle of independent assortment.

Explanation:

Mendelian law of independent assortment describes that the alleles of two different genes get arranged into gametes independently without influenced or affected by one another.

Independent assortment of genes is very important to generate new combinations that increase genetic variations in a population. So, the combinations of the characters in the offspring did not match up with parents could be explained by the law of independent assortment.

Thus, the correct answer is the independent assortment.