This is a picture of corals. Corals are an example of asexual reproduction. Corals can both reproduce asexually and sexually. Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction where the offspring is produced from a single organism and only has genes from that one parent. The offspring is essentially a clone of it's parent because there was no genetic material exchanged. With corals, the types of asexual reproduction is budding (division into clones) and fragmentation. Fragmentation usually occurs naturally when they are broken off and attach and develop into new colonies.
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