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Work out a typical Mendelian dihybrid cross and state the law that he derived from it.
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Mendel performed many dihybrid crosses, with different combinations and every time he got a consistent pattern of results and the same ratio in F2 generation. From this, he established the principle of independent assortment. It states that whentwoormore characteristicsareinherited,individual hereditary factors assort independently during gamete production,givingdifferenttraitsandequalopportunityof occurringtogether.
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