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Mendel's law

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Men·del's law (mndlz)
n.
1. One of two principles of heredity first formulated by Gregor Mendel, founded on his experiments with pea plants and stating that the members of a pair of homologous chromosomes segregate during meiosis and are distributed to different gametes. Also called law of segregation.
2. The second of these two principles, stating that each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes segregates during meiosis independently of the members of other pairs, so that alleles carried on different chromosomes are distributed randomly to the gametes. Also called law of independent assortment.
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His experiments brought forth two generalizations which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Heredity or Mendelian inheritance.
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Mendel's laws of segregation and the law of independent assortment of characters are now recognized as the fundamental principles of heredity.
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