Komodo Dragon Female Komodo dragons have a remarkable ability to reproduce asexually through a process known as ...

Although humans can’t clone themselves at will, unicellular organisms, such as bacteria, can. They don’t need a partner to mate with because they use asexual reproduction. Are there any advantages or ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE biology students studying asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction, meiosis and gamete formation, advantages and disadvantages of sexual and ...

Parthenogenesis, a form of reproduction in which an egg develops into an embryo without being fertilized by sperm, might be more common than you realized.

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 ...

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 ...

I am an asexual woman in my mid-20s. I am interested in dating and hopefully starting a relationship with someone, however, I have little to no physical or sexual experience and I’m very worried ...

A study on Lepraria lichens found they possess genes for sexual reproduction despite being thought entirely asexual. This ...

When Stacey wrote about her experience of not wanting to sleep with anyone, even her husband, dozens of readers sent emails saying that they too were asexual. Many described feeling isolated in a ...

Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction ...

A new Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) drama aims to foster better understanding of people who identify as being aromantic or asexual--a topic long ignored by mainstream TV. The series "Koisenu ...