Science and Technology · Biotechnology
What is the primary evolutionary and reproductive consequence of introducing a functional gene drive into a wild animal population?
- 1It drastically increases the inheritance probability of a specific suite of genes, bypassing normal odds to spread across generations.✓
- 2It decreases the fitness of the organism so rapidly that it causes instant sterility in the parent organism.
- 3It shifts reproduction exclusively from sexual methods to asexual binary fission.
- 4It permanently prevents the translation of any genomic sequence during embryogenesis.
Correct answer
It drastically increases the inheritance probability of a specific suite of genes, bypassing normal odds to spread across generations.
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