Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who lived in the 1800s. Mendel is known as the "father of modern genetics" as a result of discovering two important laws - the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment. According to Mendel's law of segregation, different alleles are separated into different gametes, or sex cells. According to the Mendel's law of independent assortment,
A.
traits are sorted so the gametes from each parent are identical to each other.
B.
only one version of each trait can be separated at a time.
C.
the separation of one trait does not influence the separation of another trait.
D.
similar traits must be separated into the same gamete.