Multiple choice

Which of the following acts as a major contributor to a large variation of traits inherited by the progenies?

  1. Production of polar bodies

  2. Small gene pools

  3. Homozygous dominance

  4. Shuffling in homologous chromosomes
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Explanation

The random shuffling of homologous chromosomes is the process that causes the most variation. It is like taking the 46 chromosomes you have, and paring them together by like ones, and flipping a coin to see if the one you inherited from your mother or father will go with each gamete produced.

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