Natural selection will likely eliminate deleterious alleles more quickly with sexual reproduction than with asexual reproduction.

a. true
b. false


Ans: a. true
Sex works in both directions. It helps to speed the evolution, the spread of beneficial alleles, and it helps speed the disappearance of deleterious alleles

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