How does meiosis result in genetic variation?

The suffling of existing genetic material into new combinations during meiosis is important in creating genetic variation.

This shuffling includes:

• independent assortment
• crossing over

Independent assortment:

• during meiosis only one chromosome from each pair ends up in each gamete
• the independent assortment of the chromosome pairs as they line up during meiosis 1 is a source of genetic variation
• this process is random; either…