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law of independent assortment

DEFINITIONS OF: law of independent assortment

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n each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes separates independently of the members of other pairs so the results are random

Type of:
Mendel's law
(genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research
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