Q. Mendel’s principle of segregation is based on separation of alleles during

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Solution:

• This law is based on the fact that the alleles do not show any blending and that both the characters are recovered as such in the generation though one of these is not seen at the stage.
• Though the parents contain two alleles during gamete formation, the factors or alleles of a pair segregate from each other such that a gamete receives only one of the two factors.