Asexual reproduction in some starfish is achieved through fission, meaning the animal actually splits in two and produces two complete organisms. In some cases, starfish will voluntarily break ...

Patriarchy contradicts biological history and does not reflect it.

Because fission does not happen frequently—approximately ... It also may be key in understanding how this form of asexual reproduction can give rise to diversity in a population without sexual ...

But this is missing the point. For many species there is an alternative: asexual reproduction. Asexual: A female reproduces without the genetic contribution of a male and makes daughters ...

For years scientists have known that some species of sharks, fish and lizards are capable of "virgin births," asexual reproduction known as parthenogenesis that occurs when unfertilized eggs develop.

Asexual conundrums Parthenogenetic species are rare but found among a variety of life, including reptiles, amphibians, ...

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 ...

During fission or fragmentation in asexual organisms ... that maintenance of these populations takes place solely via asexual reproduction. The aim of the present study was to assess the effect ...

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Because fission does not happen frequently ... It also may be key in understanding how this form of asexual reproduction can give rise to diversity in a population without sexual reproduction.