Summary:
- Mendel asked whether different characteristics are inherited together.
- For example, are purple flowers and tall stems always inherited together?
- Or do these two characteristics show up in different combinations in offspring?
- To answer these questions, Mendel next investigated two characteristics at a time.
- The results of Mendel’s second set of experiments led to his second law.
- This is the law of independent assortment.
- It states that factors controlling different characteristics.
- are inherited independently of each other.
- Mendel didn’t know about genes.
- Genes would not be discovered until several decades later.