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This study investigated effect of computer simulation on students’ interest and achievement in sexual reproduction in Niger State, Nigeria.  It adopted a pretest, post-test Quasi Experimental, control group design. A sample size of 178 students was selected from a population of 11,275 SS 11 Biology students in 240 public secondary schools in 2018/2019 academic session using Multi-stage random sampling techniques. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Plant Reproduction Interest Inventory (PRII) and Plant Reproduction Achievement Test (PRAT) were the instruments employed for data collection.  The Instruments were Adapted, duly validated and the reliability index of PRAT and PRIS were 0.88 and 0.80 using Kuder- Richardson Formula 20 and Cronbach Alpha reliability methods respectively. ANCOVA was used to test the hypotheses while research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that student taught using Computer Simulation Strategy performed better than those taught using the conventional teaching methods. Also the result of ANCOVA test indicate that there was significant difference in the interest  ratings with  F - ratio of 470.030 and P- value =0.000, achievement scores with F-ratio of 125.037 and P- value of 0.00 in favour of the group taught using computer simulation strategy. Based on this result, it was recommended that computer simulation strategy should be adopted for teaching of Biology in secondary schools and Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) should organize seminars, conferences and workshops to enlighten teachers on the effectiveness of CSS among others.