Learn how Mendel's law of segregation explains how alleles separate during gamete formation. See how Mendel used pea plants to test this law and how it applies to modern genetics. Learn the definition, examples, and diagram of Mendel’s law of segregation , which states that each gene separates into different gametes during meiosis. See how Mendel tested this law with pea plants and how it applies to inheritance in other organisms. The Law of Dominance, Law of Segregation and Law of Independent Assortment are the three Mendel’s laws of inheritance. These laws came into existence by the experiments on pea plants in a variety of differing traits. Mendel started his research with monohybrid cross. The Law of Segregation states that every individual organism contains two alleles for each trait , and that these alleles segregate (separate) during meiosis such that each gamete contains only one of the alleles.
