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Topics: Reproduction can be sexual or asexual. Organisms can evolve as separate sexes or as hermaphrodites.
Over many decades, how might the presence of pathogens influence the proportion of individuals in a plant population that reproduce by self-fertilization versus the proportion that reproduce by outcrossing? Why would pathogens cause this outcome?


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