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

A female swell shark gives birth to a pup without coming in contact with a male, and now scientists are wondering how this is ...

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 ...

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 ...

While asexual reproduction can be good for rapidly reproducing organisms, it's not ideal for organisms with long reproductive cycles like sharks, as it stunts genetic diversity, according to the ...

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 ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE biology students studying asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction, meiosis and gamete formation, advantages and disadvantages of sexual and ...

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 ...