Asexual reproduction in plants has its advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that there is no need for a mate and yet asexual reproduction lets plants produce large number of offspring.
Disadvantages to this type of reproduction includes lack of diversity since all offspring will be identical, and easy extinction since a predator who can take a species down can take out the whole population. Furthermore, offspring in this kind of reproduction cannot adapt to environment because of the lack of 'genetic variability'.
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