As expressed in modern terms, Mendel\'s \"law of independent assortment\" is mos

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As expressed in modern terms, Mendel's "law of independent assortment" is most similar to saying that:

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During meiosis, alleles of different genes wind up in gametes independently of one another

During mitosis, copies of alleles of different genes wind up in the same or different cells independently of one another

During mitosis, copies of an allele are separated from one another

During meiosis, copies of an allele are separated from one another

During meiosis, different alleles of the same gene are separated from one another

During meiosis, alleles of different genes wind up in gametes independently of one another

During mitosis, copies of alleles of different genes wind up in the same or different cells independently of one another

During mitosis, copies of an allele are separated from one another

During meiosis, copies of an allele are separated from one another

During meiosis, different alleles of the same gene are separated from one another

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a. During meiosis, alleles of different genes wind up in gametes independently of one another.

Mendel’s law of independent assortment states that, during meiosis, each member of a pair of genes on homologous chromosomes tends to be randomly distributed into gametes independently of how other chromosomes are distributed. It results in giving all possible combinations in equal frequency. The frequency of occurrence of allele combinations by independent assortment is calculated by the number of allele combinations to the power of number of pairs of chromosome.

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