The advantages and disadvantages of both

The advantages of asexual reproduction include that there only needs to be one parent, which means that asexual reproduction is quick, therefore it requires little energy. As well as this, identical offspring can often be favourable in some conditions. Although, this can also be a disadvantage because if an environmental factor (such as disease or cold weather) affects one organism, they will all be equally as affected.

The advantages of sexual reproduction mean that there is variation in the offspring, which increases the chance of a species surviving a change in the environment. Natural selection is able to occur to produce animals or plants with desirable characteristics, therefore only the fittest will live on. On the other hand, the disadvantage of sexual reproduction is that that it takes a lot of time and energy.

	Created by mathilde brown over 4 years ago

Asexual and Sexual reproduction