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

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 ...

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 ...

Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction ...

Thus, over time, asexual reproduction in bacteria can lead to ... There are two types of transformation: natural and artificial. But where does the environmental DNA required for transformation ...

according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Due to its rarity, asexual reproduction discovered in animals often makes headlines, but sometimes, predictions are made too early.

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 ...

Plants that are produced by artificial propagation are genetically identical to each other and to the parent. A group like this is called a clone. Advantages for the plant of carrying out asexual ...