Why is sex so popular among plants and animals, and why isn't asexual reproduction, or cloning, a more common reproductive strategy? Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

Asexual Reproducers: For most living things, sexual reproduction has proven the best overall strategy to perpetuate a species in the rough-and-tumble, unpredictable fray of natural selection.With ...

If that cloned Scottish sheep were put into a certain Wisconsin pasture, the cattle there wouldn’t show much surprise in their identical pairs of liquid brown eyes. After all, the bovines are… ...

Asexual reproduction in plants. Sunday, October 07, 2012 10:05 am. ... Cloning the sheep Dolly in 1997 moved us closer to the possibility of duplicating other animals or humans asexually, ...

Because sex is messy and costly and is not the easiest way for organisms to propagate, so scientists have long wondered why it evolved at all from the original method — asexual reproduction, aka ...

Apomixis is a form of asexual reproduction that allows hybrid rice to propagate by seeds. Recently, a collaborative research team led by Professor Li Jiayang from the Institute of Genetics and ...

It is generally believed that sexual reproduction leads to fewer harmful genetic mutations than asexual reproduction. In their new study, Maldonado and his co-authors tested this theory by ...