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What are the advantages of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction?
Answer:
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Characteristics |
Advantages of sexual reproduction |
Disadvantages of asexual reproduction |
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The offspring is similar to parents but not identical to them. This i s because of the mixing of genes from mother and father. This leads to greater variety in population |
The offspring are almost identical to their parent because they have the same genes as their parent. So variations are very few. |
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It promotes diversity of characters in offspring by providing genetic variations which lead to continuous evolution of species for better survival. |
Due to few variations it has little evolutionary importance. |
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Better Adaptability to variations in environment. |
They are unable to adapt to the changing environment. |
