asex sexual repreduction

Question 1

What is Asexual Reproduction?

Answer 1

The formation of a new organism from only one parent.

Question 2

What is Budding?

Answer 2

(e.g. of yeast and hydras) occurs when a small part of the parent’s body separates from the rest and develops into a new individual

Question 3

What is Binary Fission?

Answer 3

(e.g. of bacteria and Amoeba) when a cell replicates to form 2 new ‘daughter’ cells.

Question 4

What is Fragmentation?

Answer 4

(e.g. of flatworms and starfish) occurs when a parent body is broken into pieces, and each piece may form a new individual.

Question 5

What is Spore Formation?

Answer 5

(e.g. of ferns) occurs where special cells with resistant coverings form.

Question 6

What is Parthenogenesis?

Answer 6

(e.g. of bees, wasps) occurs when a new organism develops from an unfertilised egg.

Question 7

What are Runners or Regeneration?

Answer 7

(e.g. of many plants) occurs when part of an organism grows to form other organisms. Examples of regeneration in plants are the vegetative propagation of runners of grasses and strawberries, rhizomes in ferns, tubers in potatoes.

Question 8

What are the male sexual parts of a flower?

Answer 8

The stamen consists of the anther with pollen and filament.

Question 9

What are the non sexual parts of a flower

Answer 9

Sepals and Petals

Question 10

What are the main parts of the human male reproductive system?

Answer 10

The testes, epididymis, the urethra and penis.

Question 11

What are the female parts of the flower?

Answer 11

The pistil consists of the sticky stigma, the style (a long tube) and the ovary with ovules

Question 12

angiosperms

Answer 12

Plants that reproduce sexually

Question 13

What are the main parts of the human female reproductive system?

Answer 13

The ovaries, fallopian tube, womb, cervix and vagina.

Question 14

Pollination

Answer 14

Pollination occurs when pollen grains reach the stigma

Question 15

Pollen tube

Answer 15

Pollen grains landing on the sticky stigma develop a long “pollen tube” reaching down the style to the ovule

Question 16

Pollen Gamete

Answer 16

When the pollen tube reaches the ovule the male gamete moves down the tube to fuse with the ovum and produce a zygote

Question 17

Zygote

Answer 17

the fusing of the male gamete with the ovum produces a zygote which develops into a seed

Question 18

Endosperm

Answer 18

the food covering around a plant embryo

Question 19

Germination

Answer 19

the process of a seed growing into a plant

Question 20

scrotum

Answer 20

the bag of skin caontaining the testes

Question 21

testes function

Answer 21

produce male sex cells (sperm)

Question 22

Sperm ducts function

Answer 22

the sperm pass through the sperm ducts and mix with fluids to form semen

Question 23

Penis function

Answer 23

passes urine and semen out of man’s body

Question 24

urethra function

Answer 24

tube carrying semen and urine

Question 25

ovaries function

Answer 25

the ovaries contain the egg cells or ova

Question 26

fallopian tubes

Answer 26

the egg tubes which carry the eggs releaved from the ovaries to the uterus

Question 27

uterus or womb function

Answer 27

a muscular bag where the foetus develops

Question 28

cervix function

Answer 28

a ring of muscle at the lower end of the uterus which keeps the baby in the womb

Question 29

vagina function

Answer 29

the vagina receives the the sperm during fertilisation

Question 30

urethra female

Answer 30

the urethra carries urine and is not connected to the vagina