In your observations of a new rotifer species, you note that diploid females can lay diploid eggs that in turn become diploid female adults. What do you conclude about this behavior?
A. This asexual reproduction by way of budding of a new individual from the parent.
B. This is sexual reproduction by way of parthenogenesis.
C. This is sexual reproduction because sperm must have been stored in the female for later fertilization of her eggs.
D. This is sexual reproduction by way of diploid females laying haploid eggs that hatch into haploid males who in turn produce sperm that fertilizes other haploid eggs.
E. This is asexual reproduction by way of parthenogenesis.
Answer: E
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