Processes that determine heredity and contribute to genetic variation meiosis guarantees that in a sexual life cycle, offspring will inherit one complete set of chromosomes (and their associated genes and traits) from each parent. the transmission of traits from parents to offspring is called heredity.

There are different process which helps determine heredity and genetic variations. In this, meiosis makes sure that the offspring will inherit the right count of the chromosomes from each parent.

Hereditary: metaphase 1, anaphase 1, metaphase 2

Genetic variation: crossing over, anaphase 2

Both: DNA Replication, Fertilization