For most living things, sexual reproduction has proven the best ... There are, however, rare examples of asexual species that reproduce by cloning. Each offspring is genetically identical to ...

If you've ever had a spiny leaf insect as a pet, or you're considering getting one, hopefully someone has warned you about ...

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 ...

Yet again, this simple example ... 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 ...

Only one parent is needed in asexual reproduction and the offspring are exact copies. Not all plants produce flowers. These are called non-flowering plants. Ferns and mosses are examples of plants ...

Take the peacock, for example, whose males flaunt their iridescent ... But what if some species could sidestep the mating dance altogether? Asexual reproduction, where offspring are produced ...