The Law of Independent Assortment States That

question 21

Multiple Choice

The law of independent assortment states that

• A)characters are blended in hybrid offspring.
• B)purple flowered plants will never produce white flowered offspring.
• C)the allele passed down to the next generation at one locus is independent of the allele passed down at a second locus.
• D)alleles from two separate loci, once combined in a hybrid, cannot be separated in future reproductive events.
• E)all individuals have more than two copies of every gene.

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