What Is the Principle of Independent Assortment

question 38

Multiple Choice

What is the principle of independent assortment?

• A) the principle that alleles of different genes are distributed together,as a package
• B) the principle wherein alleles of maternal and paternal genes are aligned in the cell during meiosis and separated independently of one another
• C) the principle that occurs only during meiosis II
• D) a process that only occurs if chromosome pairs are aligned in the center of the cell
• E) None of the above.

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