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Asexual reproduction

A type of reproduction involving only one parent that ususally produces genetically identical offspring. Asexual reproduction occurs without fertilisation or genetic recombination, and may occur by budding, by division of a single cell, or by the breakup of a whole organism into two or more new individuals.

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