Independent assortment and recombination play a role in evolution by

A. limiting the amount of variation in a population.
B. increasing the frequencies of deleterious genes.
C. limiting the number of potential phenotypes.
D. creating genetic variability in a breeding population.
E. reducing the overall fitness of a breeding population.


D

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