NEET Biology question

Mendel's law of independent assortment holds good for genes situated on the

(A)Non-homologous chromosomes
(B)Homologous chromosomesCorrect
(C)Extra-nuclear genetic element
(D)Same chromosome

Answer: (B)

Solution

Independent assortment is a consequence of how each homologous chromosome pair orients and segregates during meiosis I entirely independently of how every other homologous pair orients and segregates — i.e., different gene loci, each carried on its own homologous chromosome pair, assort independently of one another

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