Parental Care

Question 1

What are the three types of reproductive strategies?

Answer 1

• oviparous
• viviparous
• ovoviviparous

Question 2

What does oviparous mean?

Answer 2

Is an animal that reproduces by depositing fertilised zygotes outsides the body. Hatching the offspring , the hatchlings have little or no development within the mother.

Question 3

What does viviparous mean?

Answer 3

This is when the fertilised egg is growth in the maternal body until the young animal is capable of independent existence. The growing embryo normal takes nutrients from the mother.

Question 4

What does ovoviviparous mean?

Answer 4

This is when they produce the egg that then hatches within the body, they are born alive with no placental attachment.