Asexual Reproduction

Question 1

Asexual reproduction

Answer 1

Reproduction involving one parent

Question 2

Clone

Answer 2

Identical copies of parent

Question 3

Advantages and disadvantages to asexual reproduction

Answer 3

Advantage: population grows quickly, good for environments that don’t change much

Disadvantage: all offspring are identical. Any negative factors that effect parent effect offspring

Question 4

Binary Fission

Answer 4

Single celled organisms divide into two identical daughter cells that are clones of parent

Amoeba

Question 5

Budding

Answer 5

Parent produces small bud or miniature clone that detatch and become separate individuals

Coral

Question 6

Parthenogenesis

Answer 6

Unfertilized haploid eggs mature into new organisms

Komodo dragon

Question 7

Spore

Answer 7

Haploid cells that develop into new organisms. Cannot be fertilized to produce offspring

Ferns

Question 8

Vegetative reproduction

Answer 8

Reproduction of offspring by plants that dont involve formation of seeds.

Strawberry plants grow modified stems

Question 9

Fragmentation

Answer 9

New individuals former from piece of existing organism

Starfish

Question 10

Grafting

Answer 10

One part of plant is joined with another plant. Two plants heal together forming one plant but maintain own characteristics.

Trees

Question 11

Plant tissue cultures

Answer 11

Plant cells placed in petri dish or bottle containing nutrients and other chemicals and grow into new individuals. Seedlings, planted into soil