And now we're at the stage we call metaphase one of meiosis. So during metaphase one of meiosis, what happens is these homologous pair of chromosomes actually arrange themselves along the equator of the cell. So if this is the equator of the cell, this is how the homologous chromosomes are going to arrange themselves. So we're basically going to have this homologous pair of chromosomes, like so, and this homologous pair of chromosomes like so. Now, this is where we have to discuss the law of independent assortment. So what the law of independent assortment actually takes, actually tells us is the members of one gene pair separate from one another independently of the members of the other gene pairs.