Timeline for Variations in asexual reproduction
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| Aug 12, 2017 at 5:35 | vote | accept | Vidhi Gupta | ||
| Aug 12, 2017 at 4:52 | comment | added | Remi.b | Recombination does not necessarily increase genetic variance in the population. It rather diminish it actually. It is a common misconception that sex necessarily increase genetic variation. Have a look at the link to Sally Otto's talk, that will probably clear things up. | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 4:51 | comment | added | Remi.b | Maybe you meant hermaphrodite by saying bisexual. Bisexual is a term mainly used for humans in sociology and does not mean being able to reproduce with oneself (selfing when there is fertilization) and does not mean having both sexes (hermaphroditism, usually called intersex in humans) either. | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 4:40 | comment | added | Vidhi Gupta | Thanks for the answer, it had literally cleared many of my misconceptions. I agree with your point that sexual reproduction doesn't always result in better offspring but can you please explain what you meant by 'sex does not necessarily increase genetic diversity'? I mean it does create variations. By variations I meant genetic recombination. I'm not sure what you meant here. You probably did not want to use the termbisexual. Maybe you meant dioceous. No I mean the use of term bisexual and an explanation to this was selfing as I well understood it. | |
| Aug 11, 2017 at 20:52 | history | answered | Remi.b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |