Use the Following Information to Answer the Next Questions

question 52

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the next questions.
There is a group of invertebrate animals called rotifers, among which a particular group of species reproduces, as far as is known, only asexually. These rotifers, however, have survived a long evolutionary history without evidence of having been overcome by excessive mutations.
-Assuming that the eggs are diploid, tetraploid, or partially tetraploid, what mechanism may still occur without fertilization?

• A) meiosis in each generation
• B) meiosis in every second generation
• C) independent assortment of maternal and paternal chromosomes
• D) meiosis in times of adverse environmental conditions
• E) crossing over of homologs

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