(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.

Plants are able to reproduce in two different ways - sexual reproduction and asexual reproducion. Sexual reproduction involves pollen from one flower fertilising the egg of another to produce a seed.

When Stacey wrote about her experience of not wanting to sleep with anyone, even her husband, dozens of readers sent emails saying that they too were asexual. Many described feeling isolated in a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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.