Sex is a driving force of life, and it is essential to help species thrive. While asexual reproduction has its benefits, sexual reproduction is more efficient and advantageous.With asexual reproduction, each female only needs to have one offspring for the population to stay the same, however with sexual reproduction, two offspring are needed. Asexual reproduction also has disadvantages. Since all asexual organisms like the philodina have very similar genes, it is easier for disease to take them over, as they are all almost the same.
In "Wholly Virgin," it is said that the Philoldina Roseola has reproduced asexually for the past 85 million years without meiosis. The chaetonotid gastrotrichs is a species that seemed to be asexual at first, but it was found that they actually thrived by hiding the males in the roots of the weeds. Bacteria also reproduce asexually by dividing, while eukaryotic organisms like the moose reproduce sexually through meiosis after the fusion of sperm and egg.
In this unit I want to learn exactly how mutations happen and what the exact process is for asexual reproduction.
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