How Does Recombination Contribute to Offspring Diversity

question 248

Multiple Choice

How does recombination contribute to offspring diversity?

• A) It yields gametes with random combinations of maternal and paternal chromosomes.
• B) It modifies chromosomes to generate new alleles of genes that code for proteins.
• C) It generates gametes with selective advantages over the gametes of competitors.
• D) It increases the genetic diversity among gametes produced by an organism.
• E) It yields chromosomes that contain both maternal and paternal DNA.

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