It seems like all other non-asexual earth life forms (humans, animals, etc) suffer negative effects from a limited gene pool, inbreeding, etc. so why doesn’t it affect plants?
In: Biology
Plants don’t inbreed. They can ‘clone’ or they can reproduce sexually. A clone is exactly that, an exact copy of the host organism. If you reproduce sexually then you get a genetic recombination. Plants don’t control this like mammals do (since they are fertilized by the wind or insects) but those methods provide enough diversity to keep plants healthy.
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