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What are the advantages of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction
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Advantages of sexual reproduction are:
- Variations: Due to recombination and crossing over, sexual reproduction brings about variations in species. Variations are essential for individuality and evolution of species.
- Better adaptability: Increased variability due to sexual reproduction helps in better adaptability of species.
- Evolution: It helps in evolution of species.
- Harmful traits can be removed by selection of better adapted individuals or may be not expressed due to reshuffling of gene pairs.
Advantages of sexual reproduction are:
- Variations: Due to recombination and crossing over, sexual reproduction brings about variations in species. Variations are essential for individuality and evolution of species.
- Better adaptability: Increased variability due to sexual reproduction helps in better adaptability of species.
- Evolution: It helps in evolution of species.
- Harmful traits can be removed by selection of better adapted individuals or may be not expressed due to reshuffling of gene pairs.
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