A student views a diagram of mitosis as shown below. Which explanation can the student form to describe how mitosis contributes to maintaining genetic diversity?
A
Mitosis increases genetic variation through the recombination of alleles.
B
Mitosis causes alleles to independently assort from each other during division
C.
Mitosis prevents mutations from occurring during replication of the genetic information
D.
Mitosis produces daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell .
D
Mitosis produces daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell.