It's different than either one of the parents. And that's because sexual reproduction involves a type of cell division known as meiosis. And meiosis basically scrambles the genetic information and diversifies the genetic information of the offspring. Now, other organisms, and this includes both unicellular as well as multicellular organisms, undergo a second method of reproduction known as asexual reproduction. In asexual reproduction, the offspring that is produced contained genetic information that came directly from a single parent cell. And that's exactly why, for the most part, the offspring have the same exact genetic information as our parent sell.