Asexual reproduction, by contrast, dispenses with the entire business of genetic sorting. Whereas sexually reproducing animals need to spend a lot of time and energy searching for and courting a ...

The word "asexual" was used in biology as early as the 19th century, referring to organisms that reproduce without sex (e.g., bacteria or plants via budding or splitting). In this biological sense ...

Jellyfish are among the oldest animals on Earth ... Microbiologists at Kiel University (CAU) have now shown that the asexual reproduction of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) is largely ...

Let us consider one theory about the origin of the Easter Bunny. In recent times, a popular theory is that the Easter Bunny ...

"For example, we know that having multiple sets of chromosomes is rare for animals, yet flowerpot snakes ... comes with evolutionary drawbacks. Asexual species typically struggle because they ...

As the Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft and the Long March-2F Y20 carrier rocket stand ready at the launch site on ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday criminalizing human cloning 71-4, with 22 ...

"For example, we know that having multiple sets of chromosomes is rare for animals, yet flowerpot snakes ... comes with evolutionary drawbacks. Asexual species typically struggle because they ...

The shear diversity of fungi in the world is estimated at 6.2 million species. That is 16 times the number of plant species ...

Salps are zooplankton, which the Environmental Protection Agency calls “the animals of the planktonic ... species can reproduce both sexually and asexually. When they reproduce asexually ...

Beneath the coastal waters of Washington state, if you look in the right spots you’ll find green, grassy meadows.