Were the offspring of this organism uniformmeaning they look the same as each other and the parent, or were they diversemeaning they express a variety of appearances? Explain your answer.

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1 February, 15:18

Were the offspring of this organism uniformmeaning they look the same as each other and the parent, or were they diversemeaning they express a variety of appearances? Explain your answer.

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The organism reproduce asexually. Were the offspring of this organism uniformmeaning they look the same as each other and the parent, or were they diversemeaning they express a variety of appearances? Explain your answer.

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It is given that the organism is reproducing asexually; hence its entire offspring will have resemblance to their parent as well as among themselves. There is no scope of genetic variation in asexually producing offspring. However when an organism undergo sexual reproduction, there are high chances of it producing offspring with varied characteristics as the parents gamete carry genes of ancestors and allows for various recombination. Unlike sexual reproduction, the organism producing asexually produces similar gametes and hence offspring one generation after the other.