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A desert plant called Kalanchoe can reproduce, either with sexual reproduction through flowers, or asexually by budding off miniature leaf and root clusters from its leaves. When buds are produced, they land on the ground, take root, and grow, genetically identical to the original. If budding is used for several years, a large area may be covered with these descendents from the same original plant. The resulting population of plants will

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The Plants will be identical

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The resulting population of plants will be identical. This is a type of asexual reproduction in which there is no genetic recombination, this can become a disadvantage in the population for example at the time when a disease appears and the population does not have disease-resistant genes, the population may disappear completely.

however, by this reproduction the plants have the advantage of being able to expand widely in the ecosystem

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