This was followed by further genetic modifications that made it asexual. Most bees and wasps do rely on sexual reproduction.

Birds do it, and bees do it. Indeed ... 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 ...

(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.

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 ...

Instead, these plants produce an identical copy of themselves. This type of reproduction is known as asexual reproduction. Plants can reproduce asexually in a number of different ways. Some plants ...