Ask AI: explain Mendel’s law of independent assortment?

Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment, also known as the third of Mendel's laws, states that the alleles of two (or more) different genes get sorted into gametes independently of one another. In other words, the allele a gamete receives for one gene does not influence the allele received for another gene. This law came from Mendel's experimental results with pea plants, observing the inheritance patterns of two different traits simultaneously. He noticed that these different trait outcomes were randomly and independently distributed in different plants. However, it's important to note that this law only holds completely true for genes located on different chromosomes or far apart on the same chromosome. When genes are close together on the same chromosome, they are likely to be inherited together due to a phenomenon known as genetic linkage.