Reproduction

Question 1

What is reproduction?

Answer 1

Reproduction is how organisms produce offsprings.

Question 2

What are two types of reproduction?

Answer 2

Asexual
Sexual

Question 3

What is asexual reproduction?

Answer 3

Asexual reproduction is the process of forming a new individual from a single parent.

Question 4

What is sexual reproduction?

Answer 4

Sexual reproduction is the process of forming a new individual from TWO parents

Question 5

Asexual reproduction requires how many parents?

Answer 5

1 parent

Question 6

Each offspring is genetically identical to each other and the parent

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What and what reproduced asexually? 1 example of each of them

Answer 7

Prokaryotes (bacteria) and eukaryotes (yeast) reproduce asexually

Question 8

Types of asexual reproduction

Answer 8

Binary Fission
Fragmentation/Regeneration
Budding
Parthenogenesis

Question 9

What is binary fission? What is an example?

Answer 9

Binary fission is a parent cell that simply splits into two daughter cells [bacteria]

Question 10

What is Fragmentation/Regeneration? What is an example?

Answer 10

A piece that breaks off from a parent organism and develops into a new organism [sea stars]

Question 11

What is budding? What is an example?

Answer 11

A parent cell forms a bud, which breaks away from the parent after it develops [yeast]

Question 12

What is parthenogenesis?

Answer 12

An egg that develops into an embryo without it being fertilized by sperm.

Question 13

How many organisms are involved in sexual reproduction?

Answer 13

TWO parents

Question 14

What is something each parent contributes?

Answer 14

A gamete

Question 15

What is a gamete?

Answer 15

A sex cell

Question 16

What do the gametes have?

Answer 16

Each parent contributes a gamete that has half of the DNA of a regular body cell.

Question 17

Where are the gametes in males?

Answer 17

The sperm

Question 18

Where are the gametes in females?

Answer 18

The egg

Question 19

When 2 gametes combine, what is the result?

Answer 19

A zygote; When 2 gametes combine the result is a zygote which then continues to to develop into an embryo.

Question 20

Advantages of SEXUAL reproduction?

Answer 20

• Produces variation in offspring
• If the environment changes variation gives a survival advantage by natural selection
• Natural selection can be speeded up by humans in selective breeding to increase food production.

Question 21

Advantages of ASEXUAL reproduction?

Answer 21

• Only one parent needed
• Faster than sexual reproduction
• More time and energy efficient as do not need to find a mate
• Many identical offspring can be produced when conditions are favorable

Question 22

Can plants reproduce sexually?

Answer 22

Yes they can but their reproductive organs are different from those of animals

Question 23

Flowering plants have reproductive parts in their flower true or false?

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Where is the sperm located in a flower?

Answer 24

The sperm is contained in the pollen

Question 25

Where is the egg located in a flower?

Answer 25

It is found in the ovary which is found within the flower

Question 26

When the sperm reaches the egg in the ovary what occurs? [In a plant]

Answer 26

Fertilization

Question 27

The ovary then develops into a _____ which contains the seeds that have the _______ information to create more of the plant under favorable conditions

Answer 27

Fruit; genetic