For Most Continuously Varying Characters, Offspring Are Intermediate Between Their

question 5

Multiple Choice

For most continuously varying characters, offspring are intermediate between their parents because

• A) of blending inheritance.
• B) genetic transmission involves faithful copying of the genes themselves and their reassembly into different combinations in zygotes.
• C) mutation is constantly introducing new alleles, some of which will produce new phenotypes.
• D) natural selection reduces variation.