(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.
Vegetative Propagation Vegetative propagation by cuttings (softwood and hardwood) and micropropagation can be used to grow new pomegranate trees which produce fruit identical to the parental tree.
A study on Lepraria lichens found they possess genes for sexual reproduction despite being thought entirely asexual. This challenges long-held beliefs and raises questions about their reproductive ...
Historically, most human fungal pathogens were thought to propagate primarily through clonal asexual reproduction. During this process, cells can still accumulate mutations and can undergo a variety ...
Thus, although the experiments on ‘vegetative hybridization’ have formed a large part of the basis for certain theories suggested by Lysenko, there has, as yet, been no published account in ...
One way to approach the study of consciousness is to explore lesional cases in which impairment of consciousness is the prominent clinical sign. Vegetative state is such a condition wherein awareness ...