Why do some traits of the same species vary?

Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information; the environment also affects the traits that an organism develops. In sexual reproduction, each parent contributes half of the genes acquired by the offspring resulting in variation between parent and offspring.

Explanation:

Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information; the environment also affects the traits that an organism develops. In sexual reproduction, each parent contributes half of the genes acquired by the offspring resulting in variation between parent and offspring.

meiosis is the first to occur after the nuclei of opposite of opposite mating types fuse