Question

What are the advantages of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction?

Answer 1

Advantages of sexual reproduction:

•  In sexual reproduction, more variations are produced. Thus, it ensures survival of species in a population.
•  The new formed individual has characteristics of both the parents.
• Variations are more viable in sexual mode than in asexual one. This is because in asexual reproduction, DNA has to function inside the inherited cellular apparatus.

Answer 2

• Sexual reproduction plays an important role in the origin of new species having different characteristics, which is not possible in the case of asexual reproduction.

• Sexual reproduction produces genetic variations, which produces diversity of characters whereas it is not possible in asexual reproduction.