Measuring about 10 feet long and weighing some 300 ... Now that we’ve taken a look at animals that reproduce asexually, let’s consider animals that reproduce in different ways.

The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly ... Being able to reproduce both sexually and asexually gives the dragons an evolutionary edge ...

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 ...

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, asexual seeds, etc.). Carriers of this gene will tend to ...

A study on Lepraria lichens found they possess genes for sexual reproduction despite being thought entirely asexual. This ...