Meiosis assures a unique combination of traits in each new generation. It results in variations in physical and behavioral traits. The homologous pair. Homologous are drawn together closely in a process called synapsis. Metaphase I 1.
Random assortment occurs.
How each homologue pair aligns itself at the equator is another major method of gene shuffling. For and organism with 3 chromosome pairs there are 23 or 8 different combinations of the chromosomes. For humans with 23 pairs of chromosomes there are 223 or 8,388,608 possible combinations. Anaphase I 1. Each homologue is separated from its partner Telophase I 1.