Advantages of asexual and sexual reproduction?

Answer 1

Briefly, asexual reproduction allows an organism to quickly reproduce, without wasting energy on courting a mate, and enables reproduction even if that organism can't find another of it's species at the time. Sexual reproduction allows for genetic variation in the offspring, as the combination of genetic material from the two parents creates new genetic combinations which may have survival advantages. Sexual reproduction is what enabled the existence of the wide diversity of forms of live that exist in our world. Without sexual reproduction, there would have been insufficient variation to enable natural selection to work.

Answer 2

Basically, sexual reproduction allows for variety of the offspring because it is receiving genes from both parents, allowing a greater chance off survival during a disaster to that species.

Asexual allows reproductions to occur much faster, therefore allowing that organisms species to out compete it competitors.

Answer 3

ASEXUAL reproduction, ( used by bacteria, etc), is able to be used immediately, if conditions are suitable for reproduction, without energy used to find, court, &/or fight for a mate or raise offspring. Advantage AND disadvantage is the the gene pool is very compressed and genetic changes, variants of the species, only come about with damage or a mutant reproduction. It gives a stability to type, which again, has both advatages and disadvantages but usually restricts it's ideal conditions. Yet if a mutant gene proves more successful, it can be reproduced immediately, as long as conditions favour breeding Asexual reproduction also means there will be no sexually spread diseases, to infect species. SEXUAL reproduction costs a great deal of energy, to find, court, &/or fight for a mate and sometimes raise young and if there is no mate available, no reproduction and, large scale, to species collapse - but it gives a far greater range of possible variants to enable relatively fast adaptions to changing conditions and to exist in a wider range of conditions in successful variants. It also gives a greater degree of effects from random couplings and the variants of recessive genes. So, as a species, there are lots of versions popping up which have all the opportunity of being tried out, as a more succesful version for survival. Sexual reproduction in a relatively suddenly restricted area, where inbreeding occurs, loses a lot of the advantages it has and as often a wide selection of mutant recessive genes, (more than usually disadvantageous), begin doubling up, the inbreeding can be catastrophic for the species.