A mosquito larva diving away from the surface of the water when it sees a shadow would be an example of which characteristic of life? Question 10 options:

homeostasis

responding to the environment

growth and development

reproduction

age range would be the answer

genetic variation can be caused by mutation (which can create entirely new alleles in a population), random mating, random fertilization, and recombination between homologous chromosomes during meiosis (which reshuffles alleles within an organism's offspring).