mendel's principles apply to peas as they apply to human chromosomes.
His first law was the law of segregation and it states that the two
alleles of and individual are segregated (separate) and passed on to the
next generation singly.
this is exactly what happens to chromosomes at the end of meiosis
2.Gametes are haploid (we have 23 Chromosomes from each parent).
the second law is the principle of independent assortment which is
really a extension of the first it states that when the alleles separate
and gametes form, their separation is independent os the separation of
alleles at other loci. (one allele passes to each gamete).
A person that is homozygous recessive not only will be a carrier for
the genetic disease but it will most probably express the disease.
even though he is recessive for the disease if he is homozygous he will
not have any other gene to mask the recessive so he will have a 75%
chance of phenotypically expressing the disease and 100% he will carry
it.
You can makea punnet square crossing a homozygous recessive and a
heterozygous person for the same disease and it will become clear.