How do the events that take place during meiosis explain mendel's law of independent assortment?

The second Mendel's law is the law of independent assortment. According to the law, the alleles for different traits are passed independently to the offspring. This event takes place during meiosis I. In metaphase of meiosis I the chromosomes can line up in different ways and independently. Mother's chromosomes can be on one side and father's chromosomes on the other side or they can be mixed in a different number of ways.