Suggest advantages of asexual reproduction and explain advantages and sexual reproduction

Suggest advantages of asexual: Many offspring produced Genetically identical offspring produced Colonisation of a local areaExplain advantages of sexual: Genetic variation --> better adapted offspring (natural selection) --> variation can enable new areas to be colonised from seed dispersal --> High number of offspring so more likely to survive

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