You have an opportunity in biology lab to observe the prepared, stained karyotypes of a stallion, a mare, and their foal offspring horses. Banding patterns of some of the autosomes from the foal match those of the stallion, while others from the foal match those of the mare. This variability is produced in meiosis due to

A. random alignment of chromosome pairs.
B. semiconservative replication.
C. random fertilization.
D. mutation.
E. nonrandom fertilization.


A. random alignment of chromosome pairs.

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