ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Money, Sex Organ, Hermaphrodite
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No sex no passing of genes to next generation. Every living thing is programmed to pass down the genes at any cost. Sex is more important than the life itself. Lizard species that is only made up of female. Each egg contains complete set of chromosome, thus each baby is an exact copy of mother. Males can"t bare offspring and he doesn"t help in upbringing offspring. Biological imperative is to pass on genes, and many mammals do this by sexual reproduction. Minos were infected with black spot disease. Asexual were taking more higher load of parasitic load, while the sexual reproducer were taking less. The red queen evolution is a race, since as fast as you evolve, the world is also evolving. In sexual reproduction the parasitic transmission slows down since each individual is different from each other. Sexual reproduction is a way to fight against parasites.
