For most living things, sexual reproduction has proven the best ... Efficiency, for one thing, is on the side of asexual organisms: Without the need for males, every clonal individual passes ...

Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary fission, meaning asexual reproduction ... “This may be fundamentally different from sexual reproduction in animals, plants, ...

Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary fission, meaning asexual reproduction ... different from sexual reproduction in animals, plants, fungi, and non ...

In sexual reproduction—the way ... By contrast, asexual reproducers—some 70 vertebrate species and many less complex organisms—“use all the chromosomes they have” to solitarily produce ...

Almost all animals reproduce sexually, as well as many plants and fungi species. However, not all organisms reproduce sexually: asexual reproduction is common among single-cell organisms such as ...

While sexual reproduction is the predominant strategy among animals, some species have evolved the ability to reproduce asexually ...

For instance, organisms including aphids and daphnia reproduce asexually when resources are abundant and switch to sex only at the end of the season, when the potential for asexual reproduction is ...

While asexual reproduction can be good for rapidly reproducing organisms, it's not ideal for organisms with ... Due to its rarity, asexual reproduction discovered in animals often makes headlines, but ...

In addition to their high percentage of DNA pilfered from other organisms, they appear to have shirked sexual reproduction for the ... enzyme may help explain how the animals are able to persist as ...