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Paramecium also exhibits several types of sexual processes.
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Although sexual processes have been demonstrated in a few genera, reproduction is largely by binary or multiple fission.
In heterothallic Ascomycota, two opposite but distinct mating types control all sexual processes.
Sexual processes have been widely regarded as being costlier than asexual ones (Barton and Charlesworth 1998; Bell 1982; Burt 2000; Maynard Smith 1971; Otto 2009; Williams 1975).
The frequency and relative importance of parasexual events is unclear and may be lower than other sexual processes.
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Some sexual organisms partially revert to the asexual mode by a periodic degeneration of the sexual process.
Hereditary variation also entails two mechanisms the spontaneous mutation of one variant into another and the sexual process that recombines those variants (see recombination) to form a multitude of variations.
Apomixis, the development of asexual seed (seed not formed via the normal sexual process), is a form of vegetative propagation for some horticultural plants including Kentucky bluegrass, mango, and citrus.
In addition, vegetative reproduction in the bryophytes and pteridophytes is a means of bypassing the somewhat lengthy and moisture-dependent sexual process; that is, the motile swimming sperm characteristic of these groups require the presence of water, which may be a limiting factor in drier times.
Conjugation, in biology, sexual process in which two lower organisms of the same species, such as bacteria, protozoans, and some algae and fungi, exchange nuclear material during a temporary union (e.g., ciliated protozoans), completely transfer one organism's contents to the other organism (bacteria and some algae), or fuse together to form one organism (most bacteria and fungi and some algae).
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