The New Mexico whiptail lizard can reproduce both sexually and asexually. If I handed you a bucket filled with baby lizards, how could you tell is they were the result of asexual or sexual reproduction

Baby lizards resulted from asexual reproduction must be females genotypically and phenotypically equal to their mothers. Baby lizards resulted from sexual reproduction must differ in some traits from the mother, because they inherited some of the father´s traits.

Explanation:

Asexual reproduction produces progeny with the same genotype and phenotype of the progenitor, even the same sex. Before meiosis, lizard female duplicates the sex cell material. In this way, cells can go through cellular division resulting in a diploid cell with the same genetic content as the progenitor cells. These new cells will develop a new organism through the process of successive mitosis. Sexual reproduction produces individuals with unique genotypes and involves variability in their phenotypes. Sex cells suffer the normal process of meiosis, gamete formation, and fertilization. Mother and father provide genetic information to the newly fertilized egg. The new cell will develop a new organism through successive mitosis, carrying information from the mother and the father. The new lizard will not be identical to the mother.