According to Mendel's Law of Segregation, meiosis involves the separation of a parent organism's alleles in order to form gametes. Since the alleles separate into different gametes, only one allele passes from each parent on to an offspring. This segregation of alleles during meiosis

a) increases the chance that an offspring will receive a dominant allele.

B) decreases the chance that an offspring will receive a dominant allele.

c) increases the genetic variability of the offspring.

D) decreases the genetic variability of the offspring.

Respuesta :

C - it creates genetic diversity. not all gametes will be the same.

Answer: The correct answer is c) increases the genetic variability of the offspring.

According to Mendel's law of segregation, during the process of gamete formation, alleles ( alternative forms of gene) are separated into different gametes ( reproductive cells of the organism). In other words, every gamete consists of one allele. It is also called law of purity of gametes.

Due to this segregation, only single allele is passed from each parent to their offsprings. Thus, in different offsprings, the chances of genetic variability is increased as there is a likelihood that different offsprings will receive different alleles.

Thus, C) is the right answer.