The conversation between madame valmonde and desiree gives an example of Foreshadowing; situational irony;
Considering this Quote;
Madame Valmonde "shuddered at the first sight of it.....It was a sad lokking place.......The roof came down steep and black like a cowl, reaching out beyond the wide galleries that encircled the yellow stuccoed house. Big, solemn oaks grew close to it, and their thick-leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall."
The imagery in this quote reveals the darkness of a place that is ironically called a shelter, and Madame Valmonde mentions the "pall" that is cast over the house , that being a term related to death.
The situation is an exponential growth wherein an example is on population when as the population gets larger, it grows more quickly.
Answer:
Re-producing sexually will allow the sea anemones to give their offspring a more diverse gene pool and can mitigate the risks of a genetic disorder being spread to the offspring because the bad gene has a higher chance become recessive if the gene of the anemone it mates with is more dominant (meaning it wouldn't allow the "bad" gene to show in the offspring) whereas otherwise, the offspring would have the same issues the mother did (assuming it had a bad gene to begin with).
