How Animals Reproduce Flashcards
Involves the gamete-producing gonads of animals
Sexual reproduction
This is the gonad produced by male sperm
Testes
The gonad used for producing female egg
Ovaries
Process that brings these haploid gametes together, allowing fertilization to produce a diploid zygote.
Copulation
Only involves one parent
Asexual reproduction
Is a mechanism whereby a new organism can regrow from a fragment of the original organism
Fragmentation
In which 2 new individuals arise from outgrowths of existing ones
Budding
Is a modified form of sexual reproduction where an unfertilized egg becomes a whole individual
Parthenogenesis
Some animals are classified as this, having the reproductive organs of both male and female
Hermaphroditic
2 components of human reproductive tract:
1) gonads
2) accessory gland
Assist in reproduction
Houses the embryo (females)
Accessory glands
Gamete-producing organs
Testes & Ovary
Gonads