Asked by jayden

A student drew the diagram below to model the process of sexual reproduction.



Sexual reproduction results in a child that is different from its parents because
A.
the child receives all of its genetic information from its mother.
B.
the child produces its own genetic information once it is formed.
C.
the child receives half of its genetic information from each parent.
D.
the child receives all of its genetic information from its father.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini
C.

In sexual reproduction each parent contributes haploid gametes (sperm and egg), so the child inherits half of its genes from the mother and half from the father. The new combination of parental genes (plus reshuffling from meiosis) makes the child genetically different from either parent.