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Although sexual reproduction is a long drawn, energy - intensive complex form of reproduction, many groups of organisms in Kingdom Animalia and Plantae prefer this mode of reproduction. Give atlest three reasons for this.

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(a) Variation in the offspring are produced due to sexual reproduction. (b) Since gamete formation is a result of meiosis, genetic recombination occurring during crossing over (meiosis - I), leads to variation in the DNA of gametes. (c ) The organism have better chances survival in a changing environment.
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