One of the main reasons genes assort independently of one another is that a. they produce unrelated traits. b. they produce related traits. c. they are on the same chromosome. d. they are different alleles. e. they are on different chromosomes.

the answer to your question is b

the principle of segregation describes how pairs of gene variants are separated into reproductive cells. from his data, mendel formulated the principle of segregation. we now know that the segregation of genes occurs during meiosis in eukaryotes, which is a process that produces reproductive cells called gametes.