TWO FAULT TOLERANCE. “Recombination supplies two fault-tolerance mechanisms at the molecular level: recombinational DNA repair (promoted during meiosis because homologous chromosomes pair at that time) and complementation (also known as heterosis, hybrid vigor or masking of mutations).”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_sexual_reproduction#Two-fold_cost_of_sex
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022