(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.

Asexual individuals can pass on their genes twice as fast as those reproducing sexually, because they pass on all their genes -- and only their genes. When reproduction is sexual, half of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jellyfish are among the oldest animals on Earth, found in all the world's oceans and serve as valuable model systems for biological research. Microbiologists at Kiel University (CAU) have now shown ...

The finding may offer insight into a long standing question in evolutionary biology about what forces cause species to choose sex over asexual reproduction and vice versa, he said. On paper, ...

The day aims to celebrate, advocate for and educate the public about asexuality. This got me thinking about where asexual representation in film and television is today. So, in celebrating the ...