A scientist has moved a step closer to turning sexually-reproducing plants into asexual reproducers, a finding that could have profound implications for agriculture. Farmers throughout the world spend ...

Nature's reproductive wonders are revealed as several female animals, including Komodo dragons, sharks, and even birds like ...

For most living things, sexual reproduction has proven the best overall strategy to perpetuate a species in the rough-and-tumble, unpredictable fray of natural selection. With two partners combining ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) Why are most organisms sexual? The question of why most species reproduce sexually and others reproduce asexually has stymied biologists for years (particularly since asexual ...

A team led by biologists at The University of Texas at Arlington has published a study supporting the theory that species that reproduce asexually have more harmful genetic mutations than those ...

QUESTION: How do seedless plants reproduce? ANSWER: Scientists estimate that there are approximately 400,000 species of plants on Earth. It is no surprise that there are many forms of plant ...

Plants are able to reproduce in two different ways - sexual reproduction and asexual reproducion. Sexual reproduction involves pollen from one flower fertilising the egg of another to produce a seed.

It’s a rare and fascinating event: the world’s largest geckos have laid eggs without any males involved, thanks to ...