**EMERGENCY IN TEST RN** How did the offspring end up with traits that are different from the traits of their parents? please use words like gene versions, organisms, gene combinations, ect.

Mendel found that different gene combinations from the parents resulted in specific ratios of dominant-to-recessive traits. The results of a cross between two hybrid parents — each carrying one dominant and one recessive gene — were key to his synthesis.

Explanation:

because they are eaten by the frog and the frog getseaten by the snake and the snake by the eagle