Mendel’s Law of segregation states that each organism has two factors for each trait in their DNA. During gamete formation, these two factors separate, with each gamete receiving one factor. At fertilization, the factors combine with their partners once again; the offspring receiving one factor from each parent Mendel’s Law of independent assortment states that members of one factor segregate from another factor for a different trait on a different chromosome independently. Genes …showed first 75 words of 598 total…

…showed last 75 words of 598 total…egg) does not receive an x or y chromosome. Therefore this is essentially another mix up in the law of segregation. If this egg is fertilized with a male sex cell with an X chromosome, the result is a normal female (because only 1 X is active in females). However, if a sperm cell with a Y chromosome impregnates the egg, the child does not receive all the information required for it has no X chromosome.