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Asexual Reproduction: In Asexual reproduction, there is only one parent, and therefore the offspring will be identical to the parent. The offspring will have exactly the same genes as the parent. They are called clones. This is because all the cells in both parent and offspring were formed by ordinary cell division, so they must all have identical genes in their cell nuclei. Asexual reproduction therefore produces no variation. Some plants reproduce asexually, e.g. Potatoes, strawberries and daffodils. A good example of asexual reproduction is a spider plant, if you plant one of these, it will grow into a new plant, and may eventually produce young spider plants itself. The new plants produced by asexual reproduction are just like their parent. If you take a cutting (a cutting is a piece of stem or root, cut from a growing plant) from a geranium, which has pink flowers. The cutting will grow into...

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