Genetic Variation: Differences Between Everyone And Everything

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Genetic variation is the differences between everyone and everything. Genetic variation is important because it creates variation/ differences between everything and everyone. That lets us look different. Genetic variation is also important because this also lets us have different genes that might be better for someone to survive. But, there are tow main ways only. The two main ways that causes genetic variation are recombination and mutation. Recombination is when a random egg and a random sperm fertilize and get random genes from their mom and dad. Meosis is also part of recombinaion. Meosis is the one of the steps to make more gamete (eggs or sperm). The part from meosis that makes genetic cariation is when the chromosomes cross over and

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