Which statement(s) best describes elements of the Fisher–Muller hypothesis for adap-tive advantage of sexual reproduction?

a. Sex breaks down linkage disequilibrium.
b. Sex slows down adaptive evolution by disrupting coadapted gene complex-es.
c. Sex facilitates the combination of favorable mutations that originated in dif-ferent individuals into advantageous genotypes.
d. Sex accelerates adaptive evolution.
e. A, C, and D.


E

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