Which of the following statements is a basic summary of one of Mendel’s laws?

a. Recessive alleles cause the death of the gamete.
b. All beneficial human genetic traits are dominant, and harmful traits are recessive.
c. The pattern of inherited characteristics of organisms is not predictable.
d. The separation of alleles for one gene does not affect the separation of alleles for other genes.

d. The separation of alleles for one gene does not affect the separation of alleles for other genes.