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- Research about mendel's laws .

Mendel's Laws of Heredity are usually stated as:

1) The Law of Segregation:

2) The Law of Independent Assortment:

3) The Law of Dominance:

- What are Mendel's laws .


Inheritance can be defined as the process of how a
child receives genetic information from the parent.
The whole process of heredity is dependent upon
inheritance and it is the reason that the offsprings are
similar to the parents. This simply means that due to
inheritance, the members of the same family possess
similar characteristics.
It was only during the mid 19th century that people
started to understand inheritance in a proper way.
This understanding of inheritance was made possible
by a scientist named Gregor Mendel, who formulated
certain laws to understand inheritance known as
Mendel’s laws of inheritance.

- Definition of each one .


1) The Law of Segregation: Each inherited trait is
defined by a gene pair. Parental genes are randomly
separated to the sex cells so that sex cells contain
only one gene of the pair. Offspring therefore inherit
one genetic allele from each parent when sex cells
unite in fertilization.
2) The Law of Independent Assortment: Genes for
different traits are sorted separately from one
another so that the inheritance of one trait is not
dependent on the inheritance of another.
3) The Law of Dominance: An organism with
alternate forms of a gene will express the form that is
dominant.

- Examples of each one.


Example of the Law of Segregation
For example, the gene for seed color in pea plants exists in
two forms. There is one form or allele for yellow seed color
(Y) and another for green seed color (y). In this example,
the allele for yellow seed color is dominant, and the allele
for green seed color is recessive. When the alleles of a pair
are different (heterozygous), the dominant allele trait is
expressed, and the recessive allele trait is masked. Seeds
with the genotype of (YY) or (Yy) are yellow, while seeds
that are (yy) are green.
Example of Law of Independent Assortment

Example: Pea color and pea shape genes


Let's look at a concrete example of the Law of independent
Assortment. Imagine that We cross two pure-breeding pea plants: one
with yellow, round seeds (YYRR) and one with green, wrinkled seeds
(yyrr). Because each parent is homozygous, the law of segregation
tells us that the gametes made by the wrinkled, green plant all are ry,
and the gametes made by the round, yellow plant are all RY. That
gives us text start text, F, end text, start subscript, 1, end
subscript offspring that are all RrYy.

Example of the law of Dominance:


Example:
In a cross between two homozygous organisms differing in a
single part of contrasting character, the character in this
expresión is called dominant character and the character
which is expressed in the F1 generation is called Dominant
character and the character which is not expressed is recessive
character .

A.In a Cross between pure dwarf pea plant, only tal


character is expressed in all in all individuals of F1
generation.

B. Hence, it can be inferred that in a pea plant, tallness is


the dominant character while dwarfsness is a recessive
character.

C. Tallness in F1 hybrid is determined by genotype Tt, in


which the dominant allele T suppressed the recessive
allele t, thereby suppressing is expretion of phenotype.

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