Types of Reproduction

Question 1

What is asexual reproduction?

Answer 1

Reproducing without a parent

Question 2

What is sexual reproduction?

Answer 2

Reproducing with two parents

Question 3

Is asexual reproduction slow or quick?

Answer 3

Quick because it only needs one parent

Question 4

Is sexual reproduction slow or quick?

Answer 4

Slow because it needs two parents

Question 5

What does asexual reproduction produce?

Answer 5

Produces clones

Question 6

What does sexual reproduction produce?

Answer 6

Different (not identical) offspring

Question 7

What is there not in asexual reproduction?

Answer 7

No genetic variation

Question 8

Only one type of cell division is used in asexual reproduction. What is it?

Answer 8

Mitosis

Question 9

What is a zygote?

Answer 9

A fertilised egg

Question 10

What does meiosis do?

Answer 10

Makes sperm and egg cells

Question 11

Meiosis only occurs in the what?

Answer 11

Ovaries (f)

Testicles (m)

Question 12

What is sperm in a plant?

Answer 12

Pollen

Question 13

What is meiosis vital for?

Answer 13

To preserve the number of chromosomes

Question 14

What is one difference between mitosis and meiosis?

Answer 14

Mitosis:
Cells divide once, 2 identical daughter cells, diploid number of chromosomes, occurs all over the body
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Meiosis:
Cells divide twice, 4 different daughter cells, haploid number of chromosomes, only occurs in the reproductive system

Question 15

Mitosis

Answer 15

Growth and repair

Question 16

Meiosis

Answer 16

Maintains the correct number of chromosomes in offspring