How does random fertilization add to the genetic variation
Welcome to OpenStudy! Random fertilization is a term used in biology. It refers to the fact that any egg can be fertilized by any sperm. If you have 8 million eggs and 8 million sperm, this would mean that each person is one out of 64 million possible combinations. ~ask
random fertilization helps to prevent natural selection thus when two organisms are mated on the bases of similarity or dissimilarity of characters then natural selection will occur and only a particular type of organisms will increase in number reducing the genetic variability thus to prevent natural selection from operating it is necessary that random fertilization occurs in a population and evry organism gets an equal chance to survive
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