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Which of the list below is not a way in which populations increase their genetic variation?

a.mutations
b.radiation
c.genetic shuffling

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Answer:

b. radiation

Step-by-step explanation:

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 and it doesn't include radiation.

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