Reproduction Flashcards
What does life cycle begin with?
- Life cycle begins with a single cell
- Growth and differentiation
Whats established during embryonic development?
Reproductive traits
What is asexual reproduction ideal environment?
Constant, stable environment
What are clones?
Buds from somatic tissue
Whats parthenogenesis?
- No male gamete required
- Ova and female reproductive system only
What are 5 elements of sexual reproduction?
- Sex determination
- Gametogenesis
- Mating
- Fertilization
- Development
What is sex determination? In mammals? Birds? Honeybees?
-Determination of sex by genotype.
-Mammals
XX= female; XY= male
-Birds and butterflies
ZW= female; ZZ= male
-Honeybee
Asexual or sexual
Sexual always produces female (diploid= 2 sex chromosomes)
Asexual always produces male through parthenogenesis (haploid= 1 sex chromosome)
Whats hermaphroditism?
Capacity to produce both eggs and sperm
What are simultaneous hermaphrodites? Serial hermaphrodites?
- Simultaneous hermaphrodites
- Has both functional male and female sexual organs at the same time. Self-fertilization often occurs.
- Serial hermaphrodites
- Change sex in response to environmental cues
- Protygynous- Female organs develop
- Protandrous- Male organs develop
What is TSD?
- Temperature-dependent sex determination
- Environmental temperature during a critical period of embryonic development that determines whether an egg develops as male or female
Whats gametogenesis?
Process in which cells undergo meiosis to form gametes
What’s oogenesis? When does it start in a females life?
- Production of an ovum.
- Starts when fetus is 8-20 weeks old
What is an ovary composed of?
-Ova-producing oogonia and surrounding somatic cells
Whats follicluogenesis? When does it occur?
- Some follicles stimulated to mature
- Prior to ovulation
How do vertebrate ooctyes grow?
Grow by accepting material from somatic follicle cells
What are 3 modes distinguished by fate of ova prior to and after fertilization? Define each.
*Ovipary
Producing young by means of eggs that are hatched after they have been laid by the parent.
*Vivipary
Development of the embryo. Producing living young from within the body.
*Ovovivipary
Producing young by means of eggs that are hatched within the body of the parent,
How does the angler fish reproduce?
Parasitic mating
The male fuses himself onto the flesh of the much larger female anglerfish.
All that’s left of the male is his reproductive organs, which the female Angler will use to fertilize her eggs
Whats spermatogenesis? When? Where?
- Production of sperm
- Continuous
- In the seminiferous tubules of the male testes