Sexual reproduction brings marked variation in the offspring’s while asexual reproduction does not. Why?

In asexual reproduction, a single parent is involved in reproductions (i.e. through mitotic division), so the chromosomes are not different and there is less variation.


Whereas in sexual reproduction, two parents are involved in reproductions (i.e., through meiotic division), so there are two chromosomes inherited from parents to the offspring leading to variation.


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