Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of asexual reproduction.
Advantages of asexual reproduction: It involves simple mitotic division in single-parent and it may produce a large number of young ones. Young ones produced by asexual methods are genetically similar to the parent. It helps in the dispersal of offspring to far off places. Disadvantages of asexual reproduction. The young ones thus produced do not possess much capacity to adapt rapidly to the environmental changes taking place in quick succession. No genetic recombination occurs; thus no variation occurs.
