If asexual reproduction survives at all ... scientists have dubbed "general-purpose genotypes." One example is a type of minnow found in Minnesota that tolerates both highly oxygenated and ...

Some types of reproduction, like parthenogenesis, are more unusual than others. This reproductive method requires only one ...

Cover of A Happy World by Aldous Huxley. Sexual vs. asexual reproduction Reproduction as we commonly conceive it, not only in humans but in all species, occurs sexually, that is, from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) is a species of freshwater fish native to Mexico and the southwestern United States. The fish—like their namesake, the mythical Amazonian warriors—are all female.