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Can asexually reproducing organisms follow similar rules of inheritance ? Why ?

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No, because single parent is involved in it and normal two copies of genes are inherited of parent.
[In bacteria, few algae, fungi and bryophytes have only single set of genes in their normal body cells.]
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