asexual reproduction
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reproduction without the fusion of gametes
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Asexual reproduction by females, parthenogenesis, is not only possible but it still occurs here and there in the modern world, pernaps as an atavistic survival of the once only means of reproduction in an all female world.
By asexual reproduction, an organism creates a genetically similar or identical copy of itself.
Even though colonies of zooids grow through asexual reproduction, Bryozoans are hermaphrodites and colonies are started through sexual reproduction.
Cupuladriid Bryozoa are capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction.
In asexual reproduction, an organism can reproduce without the involvement of another organism.
In at least some of these species, they actively use this as a method of asexual reproduction.