Asexual And Sexual Reproduction Flashcards

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Characteristics of sexual reproduction

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Two parents
Not identical
Offspring
Fish, mammals, amphibians, birds, reptiles and insects

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Characteristics of asexual reproduction

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Identical offspring
One parent
Bacteria, some pants and yeast

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Both asexual and sexual reproduction have

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Types of reproduction in living organisms

Passes DNA preindustrial parents to offspring

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Asexual characteristics

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  • only 1 parent
  • offspring 100% DNA same as parent
  • called mitosis
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What is fragmentation

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Single parent breaks into parts that regenerate into a whole new individual

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What is cell division

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  • prokaryotic and eukaryotic makes new cells in Oder to grow, repair, reproduce
  • called mitosis
  • cell division is where the cell divides into two
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What is asexual reproduction

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  • mitosis: process of cell division
  • exactly copy of parent cell
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What is sexual reproduction

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  • sex cell do not under go mitosis
  • instead they undergo meiosis
  • which is another type of cell division that produces 4 cells with 1/2 of the amount of DNA as the original cell
  • it creates an new organism
  • egg and sperm cell combine form a new cell with the correct amount of DNA
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Different between mitosis and meiosis

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Mitosis: growth and repair and identical cell
meiosis: reproduce and different cell

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