Asexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction does not involve the production and fusion of male and female gametes. Asexual reproduction may occur through binary Fission, budding, fragmentation, spore formation, regeneration and vegetative propagation. Plants have two main types of asexual reproduction in which new plants are produced that are genetically identical clones of the parent individual. Vegetative reproduction involves a vegetative piece of the original plant (budding, tillering, etc.) and is distinguished from "apomixis", which is a replacement of sexual reproduction, and in some cases involves seeds. Apomixis occurs in many plant species and also in some non-plant organisms. For apomixis and similar processes in non-plant organisms, see parthenogenesis.