Historical Examples. 1  Folk of the land it had lapped in flame, with bale and brand. 2  Over these they lapped thinner ones, which gave us great pain. 3  So I lapped thee in blankets and brought thee, to-morrow is a se'nnight. 4  The stores of corn and fruit were lapped by millions of crimson tongues.
Heredity is the genetic information passing for traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism.
So in order to form a new organism, two gametes -- the sex cells, sperm and egg -- must fuse, further mixing the genes to produce more genetic diversity. Asexual reproduction is one organism dividing into two organisms without shuffling its genes, so the offspring has the same version of genes as did the parent.exual reproduction provides genetic diversity because the sperm and egg that are produced contain different combinations of genes than the parent organisms.