Biology Module 3 - 1. Asexual reproduction and Vegetative Propagation 1.2 discuss the advantages and disadvantages of asexual reproduction

 1.2 discuss the advantages and disadvantages of asexual reproduction


Advantages 

• If parent is well adapted so will offspring

• young plants use parents as source of nutrients until they develop their own shoot and root system

• only one parent is needed so parent does not need to wait for a mate

• once organism is well adapted it will reproduce many offspring in that particular habitat 

• no wastage of gametes

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Disadvantages

• Competition for food source 

• if environmental factor occurs such as disease or pests occur both parent and offsprings die

• less variation and no genetic variety