Dominant and Law of Segregation

Recessive Traits Mendel's law of segregation states that: “During

the formation of gamete, each gene separates
In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one
from each other so that each gamete carries only
variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking
one allele for each gene.” Law of segregation is
or overriding the effect of a different variant of the the second law of inheritance.
same gene on the other copy of the chromosome.
The first variant is termed dominant and the second
recessive.
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel, in full Gregor Johann Mendel,
Law of Independent original name (until 1843) Johann Mendel, (born July
Assortment 20, 1822, Heinzendorf, Silesia, Austrian Empire [now
Hynčice, Czech Republic]—died January 6, 1884,
The Principle of Independent Assortment describes how
Brünn, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]),
different genes independently separate from one another
when reproductive cells develop. Independent botanist, teacher, and Augustinian prelate, the first
assortment of genes and their corresponding traits was person to lay the mathematical foundation of the
first observed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 during his science of genetics, in what came to be called
studies of genetics in pea plants. Mendel was performing
Mendelism.
dihybrid crosses, which are crosses between organisms
that differ with regard to two traits. He discovered that the
combinations of traits in the offspring of his crosses did
not always match the combinations of traits in the
parental organisms. From his data, he formulated the
Principle of Independent Assortment.