Question 7

(Multiple Choice)

During sexual reproduction, novel mixtures of alleles are generated.This is because


A)in all diploid species, two alleles exist for every gene.
B)a diploid individual has two different alleles for every gene.
C)every gamete produced by a diploid individual has several different alleles of a single gene.
D)during meiosis, the segregation of homologs is random such that different gametes end up with different alleles of each gene.

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