Clonal animals do not reshuffle their genes through genetic

Clonal animals do not reshuffle their genes through genetic recombination, whereas sexually reproducing animals do. Explain how this difference could affect how pathogens interact with clonal animals and how they interact w ith sexually reproducing animals.

Solution

this difference would definiitely affect the pathogen interaction because clonal DNA remains the same whereas, the recombinant dna would produce new combinations in every generation, this will make it very hard for the pathogen to adapt to the changed dna. Since recombination is not present in clonal animals, they can only change their DNA through mutations but this occurs rarely, therefore the pathogens can adapt to them easily.