What is true regarding sexual and asexual reproduction?

Generation of new offspring

Explanation:

While sexual reproduction involves the production and fusion of gametes from two parents to generate new offsprings, asexual reproduction also generate new offsprings but does not involve the fusion of male and female gametes; rather, cells divide by binary fission, or undergo conjugation.

it provides an alternative energy pathway for the reaction to proceed.

a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction but is not consumed during the course of the reaction.

catalysts increase the rate of reaction without being used up. they do this by lowering the activation energy needed. with a catalyst, more collisions result in a reaction, so the rate of reaction increases. different reactions need different catalysts.

a catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product. the rate of the reaction is increased as this alternative route has a lower activation energy than the reaction route not mediated by the catalyst.