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Originally Posted by koosie
Good grief is that true? When did that happen to Desert Whiptail? Clones of clones of clones in plants become less resistant to environmentsal stresses which is why we're losing the Cavendish Banana. I suppose that must play out over much longer time-scales in animals or are they not clones in the same sense?
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Yes, the lizards are indeed true clones, genetic replicas of the parent. Since males do not exist, and females have no way to transfer their genes to another female, the only source of the genes of each offspring is from the one parent. What is interesting, though, is that even though males do not exist, females still require stimulation in order ovulate, so another female will go through the male's motions to cause the submissive female to produce eggs.
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