What is the relationship between mendel's law of segregation and meiosis?

Question

a) only one of a pair of alleles appears in a gamete

b) the seperation of paternal and maternal chromosomes shows no pattern

c) gametes contain all dominant or all recessive alleles

d) variation only results from two divisions

Answer 1

a

Answer 2

Meiosis is the process that separates allele pairs to create the gametes (s*x cells; sperm, egg) that later fuse together during fertilisation.

Mendel's law of segregation is the characteristics of an organism are determined by internal factors that occur in pairs. Only one of a pair of such factors can be represented in a single gamete.