The diagram depicts a plant reproducing asexually by producing a plantlet from a runner. The leaves on the plantlet look different from those on the parent plant. Which statement explains why the leaf shape of the plantlet is different?
- 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.