Lesson 3 - Asexual Reproduction

Question 1

meaning clones

Answer 1

genetically identical offspring produced as a result of natural or artificial asexual reproduction

Question 2

meaning binary fission

Answer 2

the splitting of one individual to form 2 new individuals

Question 3

meaning sporulation

Answer 3

the process involving mitosis in the production of asexual pores that can grow into new individuals

Question 4

meaning regeneration

Answer 4

the use of mitosis to regrow a body part that has been lost

Question 5

meaning fragmentation

Answer 5

the use of mitosis to regenerate a whole organism form a fragment of the original

Question 6

meaning budding

Answer 6

the production of mitosis of an outgrowth from the parent organism that develops into a small independent organism

Question 7

meaning vegetative propagation

Answer 7

the process by which a plant forms a structure by mitosis that develops into a fully differentiated, genetically identical new plant

Question 8

meaning parthenogenesis

Answer 8

the process by which an unfertilised egg cell develops into a new individual

Question 9

what is the advantages of spores

Answer 9

can usually survive in adverse conditions, and can easily spread over great distances

Question 10

name 2 examples of plants that enable sporulation

Answer 10

mosses and ferns