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Asexually reproducing organisms require only one parent to undergo reproduction, here one important process that is gamete formation and the fusion of gametes is absent. Here the inheritance of characters depends upon the division of cells that is the division of DNA during the formation of new cells. The variations depends only upon DNA replication which occurs during cell division.
In sexually reproducing organisms inheritance is easily experimented and described as was the case of mendel's experiments on inheritance of characters. There was a thought of straight relation between hereditary factors and chromosomes.
Since in asexual reproduction gamete formation and their fusion does not occur, the laws of inheritance here doesn't hold good here as they are in the case of sexually reproducing organisms. They simply depends upon the DNA replication during cell division for the inheritance. However, many asexually reproducing organisms like bacteria and viruses are now known to reproduce through a systematic chromosome segregation, like during during cell division in bacteria there is a centromere like structure and mitosis like machinery. Even viruses produce copies of themselves and can change through mutations. They even undergo recombination in host cells.
All we can say that the inheritance of characters in asexually reproducing organisms is not as simple as it appears to be and involves many complex mechanisms their molecular explanations.