Each type of reproduction—asexual and sexual—has advantages for the species. Asexual reproduction is, at least in some cases, the faster process, leading most rapidly to the development of large numbers of individuals. Males and females are independently capable of producing offspring. The large size of the original mass of living matter and its high degree of organization—the new individual inherits parts of the body of the parent: a part of the alimentary canal, for instance—make subsequent development more simple, and the attainment of a stage capable of self-support easier. New individuals produced by asexual reproduction have the same genetic constitution (genotype) as their parent and constitute what is called a clone. Though asexual reproduction is advantageous in that, if the parent animal is well adapted to its environment and the latter is stable, then all offspring will benefit, it is disadvantageous in that the fixed genotype not only makes any change in offspring impossible, should the environment change, but also prevents the acquisition of new characteristics, as part of an evolutionary process. Sexual reproduction, on the other hand, provides possibilities for variation among offspring and thus assists evolution by allowing new pairs of genes to combine in offspring. Since all body cells are derived from the fertilized egg cell, a mutation, or change, occurring in the sex cells of the parents immediately provides a new genotype in each cell of the offspring. In the course of evolution, sexual reproduction has been selected for, and established in, all main lines of organisms; asexual reproduction is found only in special cases and restricted groups of organisms.
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