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Why don’t populations of organisms that reproduce asexually have the same genetic variation as populations that reproduce sexually

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Asexual reproducing populations only get their genetics from a single parent, meaning that they all have the exact same DNA/RNA, while sexually reproducing populations have two parents meaning they get genetic code from two parents instead of one, therefore they have more variance. This variance is also the reason sexually reproducing populations are usually harder to wipe out due to variance.

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