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.
However, sexual reproduction leads to a stronger mix of genes which allows a stronger species to evolve. It also gives rise to more complex organisms. Asexual reproduction is cloning ... just copying the exact same data present in the parent. There is no genetic recombination allowed in this format, unlike sexual reproduction. How often do you get a completely different image from a perfectly operating xerox machine photographing the same page from a book?