The diagram illustrates a plant reproducing asexually by producing a plantlet on a runner. The leaves on the plantlet look different from those on the parent plant. Which statement accounts for the difference in the leaf shape of the plantlet?
- AA mutation has occurred in the genes of the plantlet.
- BThe plantlet inherited the genes from the parent plant.
- CThe plant was produced by meiosis.
- DThe plantlet was produced by the fusion of gametes.