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.

( ) 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.

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

Answer 1

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

(X) 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.

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

Explanation: During gamete formation each allele in a pair segregates independently, so each allele has an equal chance of being included in a gamete.