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Create a table that compares the advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction. Then, evaluate the evidence in your table and write a sentence that summarizes and communicates the evidence.

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Answered by jjaajjajaja36

• Good qualities from parents are retained in the offspring without variation.

• New individuals produced asexually mature faster.

• Process does not depend on external factors which may fail such as pollination.

• New individuals obtain nourishment from parent and so are able to survive temporarily under unsuitable conditions.

• No indiscriminate spreading of individuals which can result in wastage of offspring.

• Takes a shorter time and leads to rapid colonization.

• New offspring may carry undesirable qualities from parents.

• Offspring may be unable to withstand changing environmental conditions.

• Faster maturity can cause overcrowding and stiff competition.

• Reduced strength and vigour of successive generations.

• Leads to variations.

• Variations which are desirable often show hybrid vigour.

• High adaptability of individuals to changing environmental conditions.

• Variations provide a basis for evolutionary changes.

• Fusion is difficult if two individuals are isolated.

• Some variations may have undesirable qualities.

• Population growth is slow.

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