Types of Reproduction

Question 0

What are the Similarities between Sexual and Asexual Reproduction?

Answer 0

• New individual is formed

- Reproduce their own kind

Question 1

What are the differences between Sexual and Asexual Reproduction?

Answer 1

Sexual

• Presence of Gametes
• Formation of Zygotes
• Common to Plants and Animals

Asexual

• Formation of Clones
• Common to Bacteria

Question 2

What is Budding?

Answer 2

-Outgrowths from a parent’s cell

Question 3

What is Spore Formation?

Answer 3

-Contains Haploid Reproductive cells that can germinate into new individuals

Question 4

What is Fission?

Answer 4

-Splitting of a single cell into two separate and similar parts

Question 5

What are the two types of Fission?

Answer 5

• Longitudinal

- Transverse

Question 6

What is Regeneration?

Answer 6

-Growth of certain lost body parts

Question 7

What is Fragmentation?

Answer 7

-Fragments of the original organism becomes new organisms

Question 8

What is Layering?

Answer 8

-Add weight to the plant so it bends and enters the soil to grow as another plant

Question 9

What is Grafting?

Answer 9

-Attach a branch of a plant with bad fruit but strong bark to a plant with good fruit but weak bark and vice versa to have two plants with good fruit and strong bark

Question 10

What is Cutting?

Answer 10

-Cut a branch of a plant and place it in the soil to grow a new plant

Question 11

What is Marcotting?

Answer 11

-Connect two branches to each other by wrapping moss around it

Question 12

What are Specialized Leaves?

Answer 12

-When tiny plants grow on the leaves

Question 13

What are Specialized Roots?

Answer 13

-When tiny plants grow on the roots

Question 14

What is a Haploid?

Answer 14

• 1 set of chromosomes (ex: zygotes)

- 23 chromosomes

Question 15

What is a Diploid?

Answer 15

• 2 sets of chromosomes (ex: Gametes)

- 46 chromosomes

Question 16

What is a Polyploid?

Answer 16

• 3 or more sets of chromosomes

- Exists in few animals, several plants (ex: Trout Fish)

Question 17

What is Reproduction?

Answer 17

-It allows organisms to produce new individuals of their own kind

Question 18

What is a Chromosome?

Answer 18

-Found in the Nucleus

Question 19

What is the Centromere?

Answer 19

-Center of the Chromosome

Question 20

What is the Kinetochore?

Answer 20

-Sides where your spindle fibers are attached

Question 21

What is the Loci?

Answer 21

-Location of genes

Question 22

What are genes?

Answer 22

-Dictate physical characteristics

Question 23

How many Chromosomes do humans have?

Answer 23

• 46 chromosomes in total
• 23 pairs of chromosomes in Females
• 22 pairs of chromosomes + xy in Males

Question 24

What are Homologous Chromosomes?

Answer 24

• Are structurally alike
• Are of the same size and length
• Centromeres are similarly positioned

Question 25

What is a Tetraploid?

Answer 25

-Having 92 chromosomes (ex: flies)

Question 26

What are Somatic cells?

Answer 26

-All cells in your body excluding Gametes