Question

What stages of meiosis does the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment occur?

Answer 1

Mendel proposed the Law of segregation based on the results obtained from the Monohybrid cross experiments, which states that alleles or allelomorphs will segregate freely during the gametogenesis in which haploid gametes are formed in a diploid individual. Anaphase - I of Meiosis - I of reductional division where the segregation of alleles present on the homologous chromosomes takes place.

Mendel proposed the Law of independent assortment based on the results obtained from the dihybrid cross experiments, in which two pairs of contrasting characters are considered. The law states that genes that are present on separate chromosomes will assort freely or independently during gametogenesis. Recombination takes place between the genes of homologous chromosomes in the Pachytene stage of Prophase-I of Meiosis -I, which is known as Crossing-over and segregation of chromosomes takes place in Anaphase - I of Meiosis - I of reductional division.