How many genetically different eggs could be formed by women with the following genotype? assume that all of these genes are assorted independently. aabbccddeeffgg

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The number of genetically different eggs that can be formed by women with the given type of genotype are seven.

What is independent assortment?

The law of independent assortment was given by Sir Gregor Mendel. He stated that " In sexually reprodxuing organisms, each trait of an allele is iherited indeoendently." This means that before fertlization, gametes are foremd independently.

Hence, in hte above situation, a woman has a genotype of aa bb cc           dd ee ff gg. Thus, there are seven different alleles. But all of them are represnting a homozygous condition. Therefore, each of these genotpyes will produce one unique egg.

Now,

7 × 1 = 7

Therefore, the woman will produce 7 genetically different eggs with the given genotype.

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