Asexual Reproduction Flashcards
Sea Star
Asexual Reproduction
Fragmentation with regeneration
Just one parent
(Also primarily use sexual Reproduction, but they can use Asexual Reproduction as well.)
How do you know if it’s asexual reproduction?
Only one parent present, clones
Strawberry Plant
Runners which make little clones of the parents super fast and the offspring grows along the runner
Sponge
Asexual, budding
Fragmentation with regeneration
the organism breaks and then regrows the parts it needs
Budding
clones grow on the organism and come off when they’re fully grown
Planaria Flatworm
One parent
Asexual Reproduction:
Fragmentation with regeneration
Potato Plant
One parent, Tubers, asexual reproduction
Hydra
Asexual Reproduction, budding
Reproducing Sea Jelly Polyp
Asexual reproduction, budding
Whipptail Lizards
Whiptail lizards (all female lizards, use parthenogenesis, eggs hatch females only),
Also used by Komodo dragons
EXCEPTION, NOT RULE
Advantages of Asexual Reproduction
Mate not required
Less time and energy required
disadvantages of Asexual Reproduction
no variation
if the enviroment changes, the species has very little chance of surviving
Spider Plant
runners, asexual
asexual reproduction
Reproductive process that that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent.