Asexual Reproduction

Question 1

What is a population in terms of Biology

Answer 1

A group of individuals of the same species living in the same location.

Question 2

What is a Gene Pool?

Answer 2

• The total number of individual alleles in a population (Affected by mutations, natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow).

Question 3

What is Asexual Reproduction

Answer 3

• A form of reproduction where only one parent is needed to create genetically and physically identical offspring.

Question 4

Advantages of Asexual Reproduction

Answer 4

• Efficient in normal environmental conditions.
• Not as many resources are needed as sexual reproduction.
• Only one parent is needed, saves time and resources finding another parent.

Question 5

Disadvantages of Asexual reproduction

Answer 5

• If environmental conditions vary, it is a disadvantage as they cannot adapt to new environments.
• Lack of genetic diversity results in a limited ability to tolerate new diseases/conditions.
• Either survive or die.

Question 6

Define Binary Fission

Answer 6

Asexual reproduction in prokaryotes, which results in generation of identical cells.

Question 7

Define Budding

Answer 7

Formation of buds which grow and split away from the main organism to develop into another separate organism.

Question 8

Define Fragmentation

Answer 8

Breaking of fragments from an organism which can regrow back into a whole organism.

Question 9

Define vegetative propagation

Answer 9

Reproduction of plants with roots or leaves breaking away from the original plant and independently growing into a new plant.

Question 10

Define sporogenesis

Answer 10

Formation of spores which are dispersed into the environment where they can grow into an organism.

Question 11

Define Parthenogenesis

Answer 11

Formation of a female embryo without need for male gamete to fertilize it.