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Sexual reproduction contributes to continuous variations in cross breeding populations, how?

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(a) Crossing over during meiosis that occurs at the time of gamete formation results in recombination of genes present on maternal and paternal chromosomes of a homologous pair. (b) Fusion of male and female gametes at the time of fertilisation brings together new alleles from two parents.
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