Which of the following statements about the benefits of sexual reproduction is FALSE?
A) Sexual reproduction permits enhanced survival because the gametes that carry alleles enhancing survival in harsh environments are used preferentially during fertilization.
B) Unicellular organisms that can undergo sexual reproduction have an increased ability to adapt to harsh environments.
C) Sexual reproduction reshuffles genes, which is thought to help species survive in novel or varying environments.
D) Sexual reproduction can speed the elimination of deleterious alleles.
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Q7: During sexual reproduction, novel mixtures of alleles
Q8: Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A)Another
Q9: Organisms that reproduce sexually
A)must be haploid, unlike
Q10: Which of the following statements about meiosis
Q11: Imagine meiosis in a diploid organism that
Q13: The formation of a bivalent during meiosis
Q14: After the first meiotic cell division,
A)two haploid
Q15: You examine a worm that has two
Q16: A single nondisjunction event during meiosis
A)will block
Q17: In the absence of recombination, how many
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