New research shows bacteria form distinct species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange via homologous recombination.

Thus, over time, asexual reproduction in bacteria can lead to a population of hundreds of thousands of cells, all of which are genetically identical to a lone original parent cell. Given their ...

Tucker Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary fission, meaning asexual reproduction, ...

Bacteria reproduce by cloning themselves through binary fission - a kind of asexual reproduction. In the right conditions, they can reproduce very quickly. Some species can replicate themselves in ...

Imagine a gene that promotes sexual reproduction, such as by making it more likely that a plant will reproduce via sexually produced seeds as opposed to some asexual process (e.g., budding ...

Coprinus cinereus also produces spores by asexual reproduction. These spores can be produced quickly and in large numbers to enable many individual fungi to develop. A disadvantage of these spores ...

However, not all organisms reproduce sexually: asexual reproduction is common among single-cell organisms such as bacteria. The key difference for asexual reproduction is that offspring are ...