The fact that all seven of the pea plant traits studied by mendel obeyed the principle of independent assortment most probably indicates which of the following? the fact that all seven of the pea plant traits studied by mendel obeyed the principle of independent assortment most probably indicates which of the following? some traits obeyed the law of segregation and some did not. all of the genes controlling the traits were located on the same chromosome. none of the traits obeyed the law of segregation. all of the genes controlling the traits behaved as if they were located on different chromosomes.