(Mutations do create a minor amount of change.) If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor it, even in competition for a niche with sexually reproducing species.

Their research, published in Science Advances ... Such insights not only deepen our understanding of asexual reproduction but ...

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 ...

The finding may offer insight into a long standing question in evolutionary biology about what forces cause species to choose sex over asexual reproduction and vice versa, he said. On paper, ...

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 ...

The findings, published recently in the journal Science Advances ... key insights into how reproduction without a mate works in reptiles, but it also reshapes some of our long-held views about the ...

Microbiologists at Kiel University (CAU) have now shown that the asexual reproduction of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) is largely regulated by bacterial metabolites. Beta-carotene ...

Activity: Grow a plant via asexual reproduction Three years later, he sent a pair of them to a friend in England. On this friend’s death, they were sold to the Duke of Devonshire, who grew ...

While some species of lizards and snakes can create new life via asexual reproduction, mammals rely on the union of male and female gametes for reproduction. 1 That was until a few years ago, when ...