While studying colorful happy-face spiders on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii, you discover that populations on these islands share anatomical features but have a variety of patterns on their abdomens. You also discover that they share reproductive behaviors and can freely mate with one another, producing viable offspring. You can conclude that

Determine if the following statement is true or false. if true, choose true. if false, choose the rewording that is true. according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for each gene are inherited together so that they always stay together. according to the law of independent assortment, offspring express a combination of their parents' traits. according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for a characteristic split during meiosis and combine during fertilization. true according to the law of independent assortment, alleles for each gene are inherited independently so that no two alleles stay together.