artificial act of vegetative propagation. How the banana has got away without pollination for so many thousands of years owes much to the hand of man. Although wild bananas do pollinate their ...

(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 finding may offer insight into a long standing question in evolutionary biology about what forces cause species to choose sex over asexual reproduction and vice versa, he said. On paper, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plants that are produced by artificial propagation are genetically identical to each other and to the parent. A group like this is called a clone. Advantages for the plant of carrying out asexual ...

Thus, over time, asexual reproduction in bacteria can lead to ... There are two types of transformation: natural and artificial. But where does the environmental DNA required for transformation ...