11. Neither one has a huge selective advantage over the other. 12. Less anthropomorphically, do they get any selective advantage from it? 13. The selective advantage of outcrossing appears to be the masking of deleterious recessive mutations. 14. The introduction of lactate to ensure that intact healthy neurons have a selective advantage . 15. Plants that were better at retaining insects or water therefore had a selective advantage . 16. It is believed to confer a selective advantage during competition with bacteria for food sources. 17. In each case, M�llerian mimicry provides the bees in the group with a selective advantage . 18. These resistant clones now contain a selective advantage and can replicate to repopulate the tumour. 19. A continuing controversy is whether heterozygotes ( carriers ) have or had a selective advantage . 20. Thus, the ability to ward off extra mating gives the andromorphs a frequency dependent selective advantage .
