(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.

The human body is made up of billions of cells. These cells grow and divide through a process called cell division. There are ...

Some plants can also reproduce without an egg cell being fertilised to produce a seed. Instead, these plants produce an identical copy of themselves. This type of reproduction is known as asexual ...

To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system ... With only half the DNA, when the parent cell combines with another parent cell, the proper amount of DNA is maintained.

However, not all organisms reproduce sexually: asexual reproduction is common among single-cell organisms such as bacteria. The key difference for asexual reproduction is that offspring are ...

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 ... Meet the low-cost ...

While some species of lizards and snakes can create new life via asexual reproduction ... “This work will help to address a number of limitations in stem cell and regenerative medicine research,” said ...

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 five phases of mitosis and cell division tightly coordinate the movements of hundreds of proteins. How did early biologists unravel this complex dance of chromosomes? The most obvious ...