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The basic law of Mendelian genetics is the law of segregation. It allows us, if we know the genotypes of a pair of parents, to predict the genotypes, in their proportions, that will be found among the offspring of those parents. For example, if both parents are heterozygous Aa, we can predict that the three genotypes AA, Aa and aa, will occur among their offspring in an approximate 1: 2:1 ratio.
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Doolittle, D.P. (1987). The Hardy-Weinberg Law. In: Population Genetics. Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71734-5_1
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