#Mendel's_law (genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research
supertype: #law_of_nature__law a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature: "the laws of thermodynamics"
subtype: #law_of_segregation members of a pair of homologous chromosomes separate during the formation of gametes and are distributed to different gametes so that every gamete receives only one member of the pair
subtype: #law_of_independent_assortment each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes separates independently of the members of other pairs so the results are random
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