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Q.“Gametes are never hybrid”. This statement is associated with the :

(a) Law of segregation
(b) Law of dominance
(c) Law of random fertilization
(d) Law of independent assortment
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'Gametes are never hybrid' describes the clean separation of paired alleles into different gametes -- the Law of Segregation.

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Mendel's three principles, applied to a monohybrid cross (a single gene with two alleles, e.g., T = tall, t = dwarf, in a heterozygous Tt plant):

  • Law of Dominance: in the heterozygote Tt, only the dominant allele T is expressed in the phenotype (the plant looks tall), while t remains masked.
  • Law of Segregation: during gamete (meiosis) formation, the paired alleles T and t, which lie on homologous chromosomes, separate from each other cleanly, so that each individual gamete receives only one allele -- either T or t, never both together in the same gamete. In other words, a gamete is always 'pure' for a given gene, never a hybrid combination of both alleles; this is why Mendel called it the Law of Purity of Gametes. …

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