Compare and contrast sexual and asexual reproduction

What will be an ideal response?


Sexual reproduction involves two parental cells or organisms that result in an offspring that is not genetically identical to either parent; asexual reproduction involves one parental cell or organism that produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent.

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