12th Class Biology Reproduction In Organisms

  • question_answer 101)
      The number of taxa exhibiting asexual reproduction is drastically reduced in higher plants (angiosperms) and higher animals (vertebrates) as compared with lower groups of plants and animals. Analyze the possible reasons for this situation.

    Answer:

                      Higher plants (angiosperms) and higher animals (vertebrates) have a more complex structural organization as compared to the lower groups of plants and animals. They have evolved very efficient mechanism of sexual reproduction. These groups have resorted tore production by the sexual method for the following reasons (i) To ensure healthy progeny (ii) To produce genetically varied off springs that adapt to changes in environment and surviveal in all climatic conditions. (iii) It ensures the genetic recombination those results in variation which gives rise to evolution.


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