Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

 

REPRODUCCION ASEXUAL🌳🐟🍅

 What is asexual reproduction ?

Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction that occurs without the fusion of gametes and doesn’t involve the exchange of genetic information, resulting in offsprings identical to their parents.

Asexual reproduction in animals:

Asexual reproduction only occurs in organisms whose cells still retain embryonic totipotency, that is, 'the ability not only to multiply', but also to differentiate into different types of cells to achieve the reconstruction of the parts of the body that may be missing .

Asexual reproduction in plants: 🙋

It occurs in plants when a part of them divides and develops separately until it becomes a new plant.

Advantages and disadvantages of asexual reproduction 👀

Advantage

Among the biological advantages that it entails are its rapidity of division and its simplicity, since they do not have to produce sex cells, nor do they have to expend energy in the operations prior to fertilization, facilitating the rapid colonization of new territories since they do not have the intervention of male and female gametes.

Disadvantages

On the other hand, it has the great disadvantage of producing offspring without genetic variability. Natural selection cannot "choose" the best adapted individuals since they are all equally adapted and these clonal individuals may not be able to survive in an environment that changes mode. hostile, as they do not have the genetic information necessary to adapt to this change.

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