Asexual reproduction increases genetic variation in a population. Which is a way that meiosis and fertilization lead to genetic variation? (SC.912.L.16.17)

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a. Alleles are recombined when gametes from different parents join together.
b. Mutations are usually repaired by cellular machinery before genes are expressed.
c. DNA is replicated when a fertilized egg becomes a growing embryo through mitosis.
d. Parents that are homozygous dominant for the same trait will have offspring that are also homozygous dominant for that trait

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a. Alleles are recombined when gametes from different parents join together.