Reproduction in animals varies from species to species. Some types of reproduction, like parthenogenesis, are more unusual ...

(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.

Asexuality isn't the same as sexual aversion, and that's a topic worth exploring, as well as acceptance for how you feel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) is a species of freshwater fish native to Mexico and the southwestern United States. The fish—like their namesake, the mythical Amazonian warriors—are all female.

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 ...