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What are the advantages of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction ?

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Advantages of sexual reproduction :
• In sexual reproduction, more variations are produced. Thus it ensures survival of species in a pollutio.
• The new formed individual has characteristics of both the parents.
• Variations are more viable in sexual mode than in asexual one. This is becasuse in asexual reproduction, DNA has to function inside the inherited cellular apparatus.
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