artificial act of vegetative propagation. How the banana has got away without pollination for so many thousands of years owes much to the hand of man. Although wild bananas do pollinate their ...

(Mutations do create a minor amount of change.) If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor it, even in competition for a niche with sexually reproducing species.

Jellyfish are among the oldest animals on Earth, found in all the world's oceans and serve as valuable model systems for ...

Coprinus cinereus also produces spores by asexual reproduction. These spores can be produced quickly and in large numbers to enable many individual fungi to develop. A disadvantage of these spores ...