Segregation and Independant assortment laws?

[kenhung123]

Hey guys, I am a bit confused about segregation and independant assortment. I am not sure what we need to know about them? Apparantly they drive variation and are related to monohybrid-dihybrid crosses? I know the definition but I highly doubt the exam would say state the laws but more apply the law to explain variation or something

[Greggler]

do you think theres a chance of getting a q such as 'when does independant assortment occur'
and if so what would you say? Metaphase One? or is it anaphaes?

[Greggler]

same thing i believe.
like the independant assortment of the chromosomes during metaphase, leads them to be randomly seperated into gametes in random combinations

[simran93]

i thought independent assortment of homologous chromosomes occurred in anaphase I and independent assortment of chromosomes occurred in Anaphase II??? isnt segragation of alleles the same thing?

[LFTM]

Assort independantly and independant assortment are the same thing right?

There was a question on this in the 2003 vcaa exam, Q2c :  The two pairs of chromosomes, on which these two gene loci are located, assort independently. What does ‘assort independently’ mean? Include a diagram in your answer.

A: During anaphase one the behaviour of one pair of homologous chromosomes is not influenced by the behaviour of the
other pair of homologous chromosomes.