Why does meiosis produce cells with fewer chromosomes? a. it saves energy for the organism to produce fewer chromosomes. b. most of an organism's chromosomes are not useful to the organism. c. sexual reproduction joins two cells that each have half the total chromosome number. d. telophase destroys most of the chromosomes to save time?

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an organism's phenotype is the  form of a trait  that it  displays. for  flowercolor, a pea  plant  can  display  a phenotype of purple or white flowers. an organism's  genotype  is the alleles of a gene it contains. based on his data, mendel concluded that a phenotype can be  determined  by more than one  genotype.