Yet another hypothesis is that sexual reproduction enables organisms to fight diseases better; thanks to the improved genetic variability, the offspring can “patch” exploitable vulnerabilities. Most ...

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 ...

Cover of A Happy World by Aldous Huxley. Sexual vs. asexual reproduction Reproduction as we commonly conceive it, not only in humans but in all species, occurs sexually, that is, from the ...

(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 ...

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 patches of lichen you've probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they're ...

For mammals, female self-sufficiency is not an option when it comes to reproduction. Parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction, is precluded by the need for two separate genomes with individual ...

Asexual discrimination exists, writes campaigner Yasmin Benoit, and it’s high time we tackled it. As a working-class Black woman, discrimination is something I’ve had to overcome my entire life.