Children Often Have Many of the Phenotypes of Their Parents

Children often have many of the phenotypes of their parents because _____.

A) they have the exact same genotypes as their parents
B) they inherit half of their genetic material from each parent
C) they carry the same combinations of alleles that their parents have
D) they inherit mutations that make their bodies appear identical to one or both parents
E) the cells of embryos divide by meiosis,a process that yields genetic duplicates