Asexual reproduction Flashcards
What is sporulation
the process involving mitosis in the production of asexual spores that can grow into new individauls
What are the advnatges of spores
survice adverse conditions and are easily spread over long distances
What type of oragnisms use sporulation
Fungi and plants such as mosses and ferns
What is regneration
use of mitosis to regrow a body part that has been lost
What is fragmentation
the use of mitosis to regenrate a whole organism from a fragment of the orginal
How does bacteria reporduce
Binary fisson
What is budding
production by mitosis of an outgrowth from the parent organism that devleops into a small independant organism
what is vegative propgation
the process by which a plant forms a structure by mitosis that develops into a fully differentiated genetically identical new plant
How does ‘budding work’
‘the definition of budding’ - the bud eventually becomes detached from the parent and has a independent existence
What is parthenogenesis
the process by which an unfertilised egg cell develops into a new individual
