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Advantages and Disadvantages
Asexual Reproduction
Sexual Reproduction
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100

What is the female gamete?


Egg

100

Name an advantage of asexual reproduction?



Only needs one parent, happens very quickly, offspring are clones of parents, successful characteristics are guaranteed, requires less energy and time

100

How many parents are needed for asexual reproduction to occur?

1

100

How many parents are needed for sexual reproduction to occur?

2

100

Where is a shrimp's heart located? 

In its head

200

What is the male gamete?



Sperm

200

Name an advantage of sexual reproduction.

  • Produces genetic variation in the offspring.
  • The species can adapt to new environments due to variation, which gives them a survival advantage.
  • A disease is less likely to affect all the individuals in a population
200

Are the daughter cells exactly the same as or different from the parent cells?

Same

200

Are the offspring exactly the same or different from the parents? Why?

The offspring are different because they get characteristics from the father and the mother.

200

What is the longest period of time a snail can sleep for?

3 years!

300

What is fertilization?



A male and female gamete meet to make a zygote.



300

Which type of reproduction can occur very quickly?

Asexual

300

Name the three types of asexual reproduction.

1. Binary Fission, 2.Budding, 3. Spores

300

What is sexual reproduction?

When a male cell (sperm) joins with a female cell (egg/ovum) to create a zygote/new organism

300

Which animal takes 2 weeks to digest its food and risks its life to go #2?

Sloths

400

What is genetic variation?


Individual with characteristics different from the others of the same kind.

400

Which type of reproduction lacks genetic variation?

Asexual

400

Which type of asexual reproduction do most bacteria use?

Binary fission

400

Where does each parent cell carry the information that is passed on to offspring?

Gene

400

Only males are called peacocks. What are females called?

Peahens

500

What is the outcome of fertilization? 

Zygote

500

Which type of reproduction is more susceptible to disease (more likely to die of disease)? Why?

Asexual Reproduction because the cells are all the same and are more likely to die if a disease spreads.

500

Which type of asexual reproduction do hydra generally use?

Budding

500

Is sexual reproduction more or less efficient for a species than asexual reproduction? 

Less

500

What is the only animal knighted into the Norwegian guard?

Sir Nils the Penguin