The evolution of sexual reproduction is a major puzzle because asexual reproduction should be able to outcompete it as every young organism created can bear its own young. This implies that an asexual population has an intrinsic capacity to grow more rapidly with each generation.
Definition of cutting. 1  1 : given to or designed for cutting; especially : sharp, edged. 2  2 : marked by sharp piercing cold cutting winds. 3  3 : inclined or likely to wound the feelings of others especially because of a ruthless incisiveness a cutting remark.  4 : intense, piercing a cutting pain.
cutting edge-the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife. knife edge. blade-the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge. edge-a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; he rounded the edges of the box. edge tool-any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge). Translations.