If asexual reproduction survives at all ... they continue to fascinate scientists because they are natural experiments in interactions between fixed genotypes and varying environment.

While asexual reproduction can be good for rapidly reproducing organisms, it's not ideal for organisms with long reproductive ...

Yoko the swell shark was born in a habitat of all-female sharks who hadn't seen a male in years. The aquarium has two possible explanations — and hopes to get confirmation in the coming months.

The Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana has witnessed something remarkable—a newborn shark pup in a tank that only houses female ...

Those outlier liaisons gave whiptails robust heterozygosity, which has been preserved by the identical replication—essentially, cloning—that occurs in asexual reproduction. It’s a genetic ...

Coprinus cinereus also produces spores by asexual reproduction. These spores can be produced quickly and in large numbers to enable many individual fungi to develop. A disadvantage of these spores ...

Activity: Grow a plant via asexual reproduction Three years later ... and hence little or no resistance to its natural enemies. Being sterile, of course, is a major handicap in the wild and ...

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 process (e.g., budding ...

Plants are able to reproduce in two different ways - sexual reproduction and asexual reproducion. Sexual reproduction involves pollen from one flower fertilising the egg of another to produce a seed.

While asexual reproduction is common among many plants ... according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Aquarium staff have also predicted that the baby shark was a result ...