The number of parents needed for asexual reproduction.
One Parent
What is mitosis?
When a cell is dividing.
Asexual reproduction produces little genetic variation. Advantage or disadvantage?
What is disadvantage?
The genetic material that is duplicated during mitosis.
What is binary fission?
When a parent cell splits into two identical daughter cells
What is heredity?
What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring?
Asexual reproduction can occur rapidly. Advantage or disadvantage?
Advantage
The type of asexual reproduction performed by prokaryotes like bacteria.
What is fission?
One reason cells undergo mitosis.
What is growth, repair, or development.
The process, done by scientists in a lab, in which an organism is replicated.
What is cloning?
Where are genes located?
What is an advantage to asexual reproduction?
Doesn't need a mate.
Produce large number of offspring.
The end result of mitosis.
What is two daughter cells identical to the parent.
In humans, the number of chromosomes in the daughter cells after mitosis.
What is 46?
Asexual reproduction does not require a mate. Advantage or disadvantage?
What is advantage?
What are two types of asexual reproduction?
Fission, mitotic cell division, budding, regeneration, vegetative reproduction, cloning
What are two types of asexual reproduction and tell one organism that performs each type.
Budding; yeast
fission; Bacteria
Vegetative reproduction; potato
Etc.
What are tightly coiled strands of DNA called?
Chromosomes