Multiple choice

Which of the following can be excluded from the category of the functions of mitosis?

  1. Development and growth

  2. Cell replacement

  3. Regeneration

  4. Asexual reproduction

  5. An adaptation to deal with stress.
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E Correct answer
Explanation

Abundant evidence indicates that facultative sexual protists tend to undergo sexual reproduction under stressful conditions. For instance, the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae switches to meiosis (sexual reproduction) under starvation conditions.This proves that in protists and simple multicellular eukaryotes, meiosis is an adaptation to deal with stress.

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