Answer:
C) production of sperm and eggs
Explanation:
Sperms and eggs are the male and female gametes respectively. Formation of sperms and egg cells require meiotic cell division. Meiosis in sperm mother cells and egg mother cells reduces the chromosome number of half in the sperms and eggs. Meiosis also adds new gene combinations in these gametes by the process of crossing over.
Mitosis cannot reduce the chromosome number to half in the sperms and eggs. Absence of crossing over in mitosis leads to the formation of genetically identical progeny cells from mitosis.
Hence, mitosis can not form sperms and egg cells. If it does, the sperms and egg cells would not have genetic variations and there would be doubling of chromosome number with each round of sexual reproduction.
Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in organisms.
Needless to say, organisms can’t be a thing if cells didn’t exist.
Answer:
3.Fitness is related to whether an organism's adaptations result in more offspring
<h2>Co-evolution </h2>
Explanation:
A series of reciprocal adaptations in predator and prey populations describes co-dependence or co-evolution
- In co-evolution, two species which are in association evolve together due to their relationship
- Both the species have different ancestry
- Interactions exhibited by co-evolution are: host parasite interaction, prey predator association, evolution of long proboscis in insects for taking nectar from flowers
- Predation is a very short term behavior in which two different species interact with each other for the demand of energy, one is prey and the other is predator
- For successful predation, predator wants minimum energy investment and maximum energy
- Increase in prey population in any given area attracts predator population, hence population of predator also increases in that area
- Increase in predator population results in decrease in prey population after some time decrease in prey population leads to decrease in predator population also
