Question

Meiosis guarantees that in a sexual life cycle, offspring will inherit one complete set of chromosomes (and their associated genes and traits) from each parent. The transmission of traits from parents to offspring is called heredity. Another important aspect of meiosis and the sexual life cycle is the role these processes play in contributing to genetic variation. Although offspring always resemble their parents, they are genetically different from both of their parents and from one another. The degree of variation may be tremendous. The following processes are associated with meiosis and the sexual life cycle: DNA replication before meiosis crossing over chromosome alignment in metaphase I and separation in anaphase I chromosome alignment in metaphase II and separation in anaphase II fertilization Sort each process into the appropriate bin according to whether it contributes to heredity only, genetic variation only, or both. (Note that a bin may be left empty.)

Answer 1

Answer:

HEREDITY ONLY:

none

GENETIC VARIATION ONLY:

none

BOTH:

all

Explanation:

In all the organism that reproduce sexually, produced offspring are genetically varied. As this genetic variation continues, it also leads to hereditary evolution of organism through gene flow from one generation to other. Therefore, the processes of DNA replication, crossing over, chromosome separation and alignment etc. ensure flow of genes from one generation to the next. This does not happen in organisms reproducing asexually.