Question

According to the law of independent assortment, how many different types of gametes would be produced if the genotype is AabbCcDD?
A. 4.
B. 6.
C. 8.
D. 10.
E. 12.

Answer 1

Mendel is a German scientist and he is considered as the founder of the modern science of genetics, he done a lot of research in the field of genetics and Mendel was the person who established many rules for heredity, which is referred to as the law of Mendelian inheritance, and low Mendel laws are Law of segregation and law of independent assortment.

Complete answer: Laws of Independent assortment tells that genes do not influence each other, while they are unable to sort out into gametes, where every possible combination of an allele for every gene is likely to occur.
The law of independent assortment can be explained and checked by using the dihybrid test cross, where it is a cross between the two parents, that generally express the different traits for two characteristics.
According to the Mendel's law, that is the law of independent assortment, the gametes that are formed from the genotype is given by a formula called 2 power n, where n is given by the number of heterozygous gene Pairs that are present on the chromosome, and from the above-given genotype in the question, they have two heterozygous genes, which means that 2 power 2 so it is 4, then the number of gametes that are formed from the above-given genotype is 4.
Only heterozygous genes are considered because homozygous does not cause any change.

Note: Mendel had given many laws, among that the law of independent assortment is one, where it states that genes are independent on each other, where they are separated from each other, while they are inherited from parents to offsprings, but this law does not apply to linked genes.