This law states that “the genes for 2 or more different traits are distributed independently and the distribution is independent of the other traits. In other words each pair of different characters in hybrid union is inherited inde­pendently of the other differences in the original parental stocks.

When 2 or more pairs of alleles are studied, each allele acts independent of the other crossing. Factors or genes expressing different characters exhibit independ­ent assortment and shuffling without being influenced by other factors.