Question

Which statement is true according to Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment?(1 point)
Responses

If a parent carries two recessive alleles, then neither one of them gets passed on.
If a parent carries two recessive alleles, then neither one of them gets passed on.

Either of the two alleles carried by the parent has an equal chance to be passed on.
Either of the two alleles carried by the parent has an equal chance to be passed on.

One parent always passes a dominant allele; the other always passes a recessive allele.
One parent always passes a dominant allele; the other always passes a recessive allele.

Both parents pass on a dominant allele whenever they have one.
Both parents pass on a dominant allele whenever they have one.

Answer 1

Either of the two alleles carried by the parent has an equal chance to be passed on.

Explanation: during gamete formation alleles segregate randomly, so each allele from a heterozygote has a 50% chance of being passed to a gamete (Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment).