Which of the Following Is Not Considered a Potential Benefit

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not considered a potential benefit of sexual reproduction?

• A) Separate beneficial mutations can be brought together in a single individual more rapidly.
• B) Recombination allows populations to purge deleterious mutations.
• C) Sex creates variation in offspring, which speeds the evolutionary response to selection.
• D) Sexual organisms produce twice as many offspring as asexual organisms.

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