How can asexual reproduction produce variation in a population?

Answer 1

If an organism practice asexual reproduction, its descendants are clones of itself because of the absence of genetic mixing between individuals.

Mutation is the only variation cause possible, which will make descendants slightly differents from their ancester.

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Answer 2

Benjamin Alvin

Asexual reproduction can introduce genetic variation through mutations that occur during DNA replication. Additionally, genetic recombination can occur through processes like horizontal gene transfer, enhancing diversity in a population.

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