law of independent assortment

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

   BroaderMendel's law

Questions about law of independent assortment

What does law of independent assortment mean?

law of independent assortment means "each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes separates independently of the members of other pairs so the results are random".

Is law of independent assortment a common word?

law of independent assortment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.