Transcription: There are alternatives to sexual reproduction. In aphids, for example, new individuals can develop from female eggs which have not been fertilized. This is called parthenogenesis. It's good because you can sort of do it yourself and the offspring are genetically identical to the parent. That seems to be good news for the genes. They definitely get passed on. So doesn't this increase their chances of survival? And another thing, female aphids have female offspring, because they're all clones. These offspring in turn have more females and so on. So each young aphid produced this way will have mo ...
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