Is Sex Important?

Is Sex Important?

This is a great question to talk about, for we are Eukaryotes, so we produce sexually. But what about the Porokaryotes? If Asexual reproduction dooms a species, why is there more Prokaryotes? There are several answers to this questions:

• They only need 1 offspring to ensure same population

This means that we(eukaryotes) need 2 offspring to keep population. This gives the Prokaryotes a huge advantage, but what ruins this is genetic mutations. Most mutations are bad and they will eventually kill off the whole species. One fact to counter this is:

• Prokaryotes that move can survive

This helps prokaryotes to keep away from bad environments and viruses. The down side to this is that most die trying to move and they could be moved to a worse place.

• Prokaryotes can adapt

Most of these(like the Flu) are only alive because they can change so that they can share and steal DNA to change and get stronger.

• Prokayotes have the same DNA

This may seem like a bad thing but what if their DNA is really perfect? They could have extemely good DNA and live like that for a long time.

Lets move to Eukaryotes. We have the advantage of mixing genes but it can also be a disadvantage, especially in the society we have today.

• Eukaryotes can share bad genes

This is bad and we keep letting people with bad genes live and they reproduce. I will sound heartless here but if we let them die it would better society. This fact could mean our doom in the next thousand years.

Now for some questions:

• If we could reproduce asexually, would we do it and how would it work for us?
• Do colonies like bees genetically differ?
• Whats the biggest asexually reproducing organism?