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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 at least three reasons for this.

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 at least three reasons for this.

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Sexual reproduction provides various survival benefits, and because of this, higher organisms in kingdom Animalia and Plantae prefer this mode of reproduction.

Though asexual reproduction can generate a large number of offspring in a very short time span, these offspring are clones of their parent and have the same shortcomings as their parents. So, they will be equally susceptible to diseases and harsh surroundings. However, as sexual reproduction combines genotypes of a parent, over time, the later generations tend to have better genotype compared to the earlier generations.

Sexual reproduction also helps organisms to survive unfavourable conditions. Many plants utilise asexual reproduction during the favourable condition but resort to sexual reproduction in unfavourable conditions.

Organisms exhibiting asexual reproduction rely completely on the mutation to undergo evolution, however, in sexual reproduction each generation is slightly different from the previous one and these added over a few generations can also bring about evolution

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