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.
Cut - An individual strip of film consisting of a single shot; the separation of two pieces of action as a transition (used when one says cut from the shot of the boy to the shot of the girl); a verb meaning to join shots together in the editing process; or an order to end a take (cut!). Cutter (See Editor.)