Asexual reproduction, by contrast, dispenses with the entire business of genetic sorting. Whereas sexually reproducing animals need to spend a lot of time and energy searching for and courting a ...

Komodo Dragon Female Komodo dragons have a remarkable ability to reproduce asexually through a process known as ...

Asexual animals arose from diversified sexually reproducing ... which consists only of females who reproduce by parthenogenesis. They appear to be the only known unisexual reptile.

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 ...

Just think of the possibilities! wink, wink. Cloning in animals refers to asexual reproduction, where an organism creates an exact genetic copy of itself. Unlike humans and most animals that ...

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 ...

Some females may be resorting to asexual reproduction because smalltooth sawfish numbers are so low mating opportunities may not exist, they said. “There have been a number of cases in reptiles ...