Explain how Independent assortment of chromosomes during meiosis causes variation in sexually reproducing organisms.

The orientation of bivalents at the equator of the spindle during metaphase I and orientation of chromosomes at equator in metaphase II are random. Chromosomes in each bivalent and chromatids of each chromosome separate independently of others during anaphase I and II respectively giving different gene combinations in the gametes

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