Adavantages and disadvanatages of asexual and sexual reproduction

Question 1

Advanatges of Sexual Reproduction?

Answer 1

• Allows for variation in the species - these leads towards greater qauntity as well as variety of plants, this will allow humans to crop as well as consume larger quanitity of nutrition
• Allows for a large range of genetic variety within the species - this ensures the conitnuity of the species in particular which is mandatory for humans as this prove madnatory aspects such as oxygen, nutirtion and more
• Seeds produced can be dispersed over large areas - so the seeds are not contesting or fighting for the nurtients required for gemination and their survival

Question 2

Disadvanatges of Sexual Reproduction?

Answer 2

• Requires special environmental climates - are not accessible as crops full year round for humans
• Smaller number of offspring produced - smaller quantity of the desired fruit is attainable
• Requires gametes from two different plants to form - takes longer time periods to produce offspring, therefore it is limited for humans
• Production of many seeds can be wasteful - in virtue of the different seed dispersal mechanisms the seeds may not be able to be placed within an environment in which they could germinate therefore, they form to be useless whereas, the great deals of energy which was dispensed by the plant may have been used on something else

Question 3

Advantages of asexual reproduction

Answer 3

• Only one parent involved
• Large number of offspring can be produced at one time
• Offspring have the sexual genetic characteristics as the parent

Question 4

Disadvantages of asexual reproduction

Answer 4

• Offspring identical to parents
• Vunerable to disease because all offspring genetics are identical
• Lack range of adaption to survive a changing environment