Please Use the Following Information to Answer the Question(s) Below

question 24

Multiple Choice

Please use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
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.
-How is natural selection related to sexual reproduction as opposed to asexual reproduction?

• A) Sexual reproduction results in many new gene combinations, some of which will lead to differential reproduction.
• B) Sexual reproduction results in the most appropriate and healthiest balance of two sexes in a population.
• C) Sexual reproduction results in the greatest number of new mutations.
• D) Sexual reproduction allows the greatest number of offspring to be produced.

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