Asexual Reproduction Sexual Reproduction

Benefits Benefits

1) No mate needed 1) Creates genetic diversity

2) Avoid cost of producing males
3) Replicate a given genotype rapidly and precisely
4) 100% of your genes transferred to every offspring
5) Offspring survival high in stable environment
2) Bring together beneficial mutations & remove
deleterious genes
3) Bet-Hedging: In a changing environment,
producing variable offspring is very adaptive

Costs Costs

1) Accumulate harmful mutations -Mullers ratchet 1) Costs associated with mating process

2) Mutation (rare) only source of variation & most are harmful2) Only 50% of genes to each offspring 2x cost of
sex
3) Offspring survival is all or none in a changing environment
3) Disrupt beneficial genetic combinations

4) Transmission of STDs