Although humans can’t clone themselves at will, unicellular organisms, such as bacteria, can. They don’t need a partner to mate with because they use asexual reproduction. Are there any advantages or ...

If you've ever had a spiny leaf insect as a pet, or you're considering getting one, hopefully someone has warned you about this: if you put one in your enclosure, you might come back some time later ...

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 ...

The film explains the process of plant reproduction, covering both asexual and sexual methods. Asexual reproduction is demonstrated through simple organisms like algae, where cell division leads to ...

Imagine a gene that 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 (e.g., budding ...

(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.

Researchers from University of Queensland have discovered that corals need to be within 10 meters of each other to reproduce ...

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 ...

When Stacey wrote about her experience of not wanting to sleep with anyone, even her husband, dozens of readers sent emails saying that they too were asexual. Many described feeling isolated in a ...

Asexual discrimination exists, writes campaigner Yasmin Benoit, and it’s high time we tackled it. As a working-class Black woman, discrimination is something I’ve had to overcome my entire life.

For mammals, female self-sufficiency is not an option when it comes to reproduction. Parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction, is precluded by the need for two separate genomes with individual ...