Zoology 10th Edition by Stephen Miller,John Harley

Exercise 7

Classical genetics involves studying the transfer of genes between generations of animals. The principle of segregation describes the separation of two genes coding for the same trait into separate gametes. The principle of independent assortment describes the fact that during gamete formation, the distribution of genes determining one trait does not influence how genes for a second trait are distributed. These principles permit us to predict the results of genetic crosses. The presence of multiple alleles, incomplete dominance, and codominance influences how one interprets the results of genetic crosses, but the cellular events involved with the segregation and independent assortment still govern how these traits are inherited.
What events of meiotic cell division are reflected in the principles of segregation and independent assortment?