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Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; ...
Asexual Reproducers: For most living things, sexual reproduction has proven the best overall strategy to perpetuate a species in the rough-and-tumble, unpredictable fray of natural selection.
Sunday, October 07, 2012 10:05 am By Diana Duff Special to West Hawaii Today Share this story Reproduction in the animal kingdom has historically been sexual.
A stingray in Hendersonville is about to give birth through parthenogenesis, according to expert, who says it's impossible for shark to mate with ray.
Asexual animals are those that reproduce without involving sex or traditional fertilization. Learn more about six of them in this article.
A scientist has moved a step closer to turning sexually-reproducing plants into asexual reproducers, a finding that could have profound implications for agriculture.
Those outlier liaisons gave whiptails robust heterozygosity, which has been preserved by the identical replication—essentially, cloning—that occurs in asexual reproduction.
To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction) and altered it to allow two parent cells to ...
Two captive female California condors each produced a chick asexually years ago – the only such instances ever recorded for that endangered species, researchers reported Thursday.
This type of reproduction is known as asexual reproduction. Plants can reproduce asexually in a number of different ways. Some plants produce bulbs, like daffodils and snowdrops.