One of the laws of heredity that Mendel developed was the law of segregation. What does this law state?
A) Both parents pass on their hereditary information to their offspring.
B) When a gamete forms, the two alleles that determine a trait separate so that only one of the alleles is present in the gamete.
C) A trait can be either recessive or dominant.
D) The gene that controls one trait is inherited separately from a gene that controls another trait.
Ans: B) When a gamete forms, the two alleles that determine a trait separate so that only one of the alleles is present in the gamete.
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