The Law of Segregation states that every individual possesses a pair of alleles (assuming diploidy) for any particular trait and that each parent passes a randomly selected copy (allele) of only one of these to its offspring.
Principle of SegregationPrinciple of Segregation,
Scitable,
By Nature Education,
Has a good definition of the principle plus links to further information.
http://www.nature.com/scitable/definition/principl...