Asexual Reproduction
This type of asexual reproduction involves the organism splitting into two genetically identical offspring.
What is binary fission?
This is the term for the male reproductive cell, which combines with the female cell to form a zygote.
What are sperm?
The male gamete in angiosperms.
What is pollen?
A reproductive strategy, found in some animals like amphibians and fish, where eggs and sperm meet outside the female's body.
What is external fertilisation?
The type of asexual reproduction in bacteria involves the division of the cell into two identical daughter cells.
What is binary fission?
A form of asexual reproduction in plants where new individuals arise from specialized vegetative structures, such as runners or tubers, is called this.
What is vegetative propagation?
This process involves the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote.
What is fertilisation?
The process of pollen transfer from the anther to the stigma of a flower.
What is pollination?
The product of successful internal fertilisation in mammals.
What is a zygote?
Structures by which bacteria can exchange genetic material during conjugation.
What are pili?
In this process, a new organism develops from an unfertilized egg, as seen in some reptiles and insects.
What is parthenogenesis?
In sexually reproducing organisms, this type of cell division reduces the chromosome number by half, resulting in gametes.
What is meiosis?
Produces seeds in a cone structure.
What is a gymnosperm?
A reproductive structure that provides protection, reduces water loss yet permits gas exchange.
What is an egg?
Structures that are produced both in sexual and asexual reproduction in fungi.
What are spores?
In animals like hydra, this process of asexual reproduction involves the formation of a small bud that eventually becomes a new individual.
What is budding?
In species with internal fertilization, this structure in female mammals nurtures the developing embryo during pregnancy.
What is the uterus?
A horizontal stem, above ground that can form roots and result in a new plantlet.
What is a stolon or runner?
Term used to classify animals that bear live young.
What is viviparous?
The time required for a bacterial cell to divide, or for a population of cells to double.
What is generation time?
This term refers to a form of asexual reproduction in which an organism regenerates an entire new individual from a part of its body, often seen in starfish and planarians.
What is fragmentation?
This process of genetic exchange occurs during meiosis and leads to genetic diversity by exchanging segments between homologous chromosomes.
What is crossing over?
Asexual reproductive structure that occurs in ginger, turmeric and iris lilies.
What is a rhizome?
Has what is regarded as the most primitive reproductive anatomy in mammals.
What is a monotreme?
Term for processes such as transformation, transduction and conjugation.
What is horizontal gene transfer?