Mendel was performing dihybrid crosses ... It is important to note that there is an exception to the law of independent assortment for genes that are located very close to one another on the ...

The second law (the law of independent assortment) states that allele pairs for each trait occur independently of one another. Mendel published two papers describing his research; however the ...

How would you feel if you had to be the one to challenge Gregor Mendel's paradigm-shifting laws of inheritance? Yet Thomas Hunt Morgan did exactly this and in the process made gene mapping possible.

"Mendel discovered what we now call the laws of inheritance without knowing what a gene was," said one of the lead authors of the study, Professor Shifeng Cheng of the CAAS Agricultural Genomics ...

Mendel's work led to the discovery of genetic inheritance and the laws of segregation and independent assortment. While most of the genes behind his seven trait pairs — such as round vs wrinkled ...