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 ...

This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In sexual reproduction—the way most life-forms procreate—each parent provides half an offspring’s chromosomes.

In fact, scientists have been asking for decades, why does sexual reproduction even exist? If the goal of life is spreading one's genes far and wide, asexually reproducing organisms seem to have ...

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Instead, these plants produce an identical copy of themselves. This type of reproduction is known as asexual reproduction. Plants can reproduce asexually in a number of different ways. Some plants ...

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The differential survival and/or reproduction of classes of entities that differ in one or more characteristics. To constitute natural selection, the difference in survival and/or reproduction ...

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This milestone opens the door to sexless reproduction in mammals, something that was thought impossible to achieve, and paved the way for possible experiments on humans. Cover of A Happy World by ...

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First though, it’s important to understand how reproduction in flowering plants works. Just like animals, flowering plants engage in sexual reproduction where male and female parts come together ...

Some animals, like lizards, lay much smaller eggs and much more of them. During sexual reproduction a sperm from the male joins with an egg from the female. This is called fertilisation.