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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