independent assortment
Genetics
noun
The random distribution of chromosomes or genes to the gametes during meiosis, provided the chromosomes or genes are not linked.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945).
- pseudepigraphical
- pseudepigraphous
- pseudepigraphy
- pseudergate
- pseudery
- pseud-idea
- pseudimago
- pseudish
- pseudisodomon
- pseudisodomous
- pseudo
- pseudo-
- pseudo-acid
- pseudoalkaloid
- pseudoallele
- pseudoallelic
- pseudoallelism
- pseudo-angle
- pseudo-apostle
- pseudo-archaic
- pseudo-archaism
- pseudoarthrosis
- pseudoarticulation
- pseudoasymmetry
- pseudoataxic