(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 domestic banana that we eat is an asexual clone, one that results from the sedate, artificial act of vegetative propagation. How the banana has got away without pollination for so many ...

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 ...

Layering is a type of asexual propagation method where the newly formed plant remains attached to an established parent plant ...

Coprinus cinereus also produces spores by asexual reproduction. These spores can be produced quickly and in large numbers to enable many individual fungi to develop. A disadvantage of these spores ...