According to the Reasoning of John Maynard Smith, in a Mixed

question 19

Multiple Choice

According to the reasoning of John Maynard Smith, in a mixed population of asexually reproducing females and sexually reproducing males and females, the number of asexuals should grow at twice the rate of the sexually reproducing individuals because

• A) asexuals avoid the cost of producing males by producing offspring that do not need to be inseminated in order to reproduce, essentially only producing females.
• B) the cost of sex per individual becomes smaller when sexuals become more rare in the population.
• C) under Maynard Smith's model, populations are finite.
• D) This scenario does not represent an accurate representation of real populations.

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