How Can Age-Specific Antagonistic Pleiotropy Account for Senescence

question 29

Multiple Choice

How can age-specific antagonistic pleiotropy account for senescence?

• A) An allele that confers benefits at a young age might be favored even if it is deleterious at a later age.
• B) Mutations that occur early in life are likely to produce more mutations later in life.
• C) Early acting mutations are acted on more strongly by selection than late-acting mutations.
• D) Alleles that confer benefits early in life also tend to confer benefits later in life.

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