AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Only half the population (females) can produce the offspring, so fewer offspring will be produced when compared to asexual reproduction. This is a disadvantage of sexual reproduction compared to asexual reproduction.

Detailed explanation-2: -The offspring of sexually reproducing organisms are all geneticallyidentical unique . Because of this, sexually reproducing organisms may haveless more successful survival of offspring in environments that change than asexually reproducing organisms, whose offspring are all geneticallyidentical unique .

Detailed explanation-3: -And yet, look out the window and almost every organism you see reproduces sexually.” The math is simple: with four asexual adults (females) you get eight offspring, but with two males and two females you get only four offspring. In other words, the asexual population grows twice as fast as the sexually reproducing one.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sexual reproduction is the combination of (usually haploid) reproductive cells from two individuals to form a third (usually diploid) unique offspring.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fission. Prokaryotes (Archaea and Bacteria) reproduce asexually through binary fission, in which the parent organism divides in two to produce two genetically identical daughter organisms.