If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor ... dubbed "general-purpose genotypes." One example is a type of minnow found in Minnesota that tolerates both highly ...

Imagine a gene that promotes sexual reproduction, such as by making it more likely that a plant will reproduce via sexually produced seeds as opposed to some asexual ... only when all of the ...

Increase genetic variation (differences) in a population. The offspring will be different form all other members of the species Each offspring has a unique combination of genes, half passed on ...

To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system ... describes the division of the rest of the cell.) Almost all of the DNA duplication in your body is carried out ...

However, not all organisms reproduce sexually: asexual reproduction is common ... This makes the species dependent on one type of reproduction, even if conditions change later that would make ...

In sexual reproduction—the ... By contrast, asexual reproducers—some 70 vertebrate species and many less complex organisms—“use all the chromosomes they have” to solitarily produce ...

Coprinus cinereus also produces spores by asexual reproduction. These spores can ... to unfavourable conditions because they are all genetically identical.

After all, those that fall beyond ... I was 15 when I first heard the term ‘asexual’ as it referred to sexual orientation rather than asexual reproduction. I thought I had finally found ...

A new Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) drama aims to foster better understanding of people who identify as being aromantic or asexual--a topic ... Aromanticism is a type of sexual orientation ...

Additionally, there is even less asexual representation in film. While a few minor characters in film have been mentioned as being asexual or were later confirmed to be asexual by the creators of the ...