• galilette@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    The offspring of a virgin birth are not exact clones of their mother but are genetically very similar, and are always female.

    What’s the source of the difference?

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      I’m no biologist, but asexual reproduction is the first and oldest form. I’ll wager there’s a mechanism to introduce a small number of random mutations in the code.