write a series of paragraphs that shows your knowledge of the following: the biochemical structure of dna, how dna replicates, how the dna structure forms the genetic code, and how that genetic code comes to be expressed as a phenotype.

Why does sexual reproduction increase the genetic variation in a species? a. sexual reproduction doubles the chromosome number. b. sexual reproduction produces organisms with no dna. c. the gametes in sexual reproduction are exact clones of the parents. d. a fertilized egg has a mixture of alleles from the two parents.