What process signals the end of one cycle and the beginning of another?

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What evidence did mendel find that supported his law of independent assortment? a. some traits are controlled by several different genes. b. a trait can be passed on from a parent to an offspring. c. most traits have a dominant form and a recessive form. d. different traits are passed on independently of each other.

2. which is the last step in the scientific method?