Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

Question 1

What is fertilization?

Answer 1

When a sperm fuses with an egg to form a zygote and then an embryo.

Question 2

How many chromosomes do humans have?

Answer 2

46 chromosomes (23 from the father and 23 from the mother).

Question 3

What is pollination?

Answer 3

The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant.

Question 4

Sperm and egg cells are both…

Answer 4

Haploid.

Question 5

Zygotes divide by…

Answer 5

Mitosis.

Question 6

What are gametes?

Answer 6

Genetically unique sex cells.

Question 7

Meiosis produces…

Answer 7

Gametes.

Question 8

Meiosis produces gametes through the processes of…

Answer 8

Crossing over and independent assortment.

Question 9

What is the benefit of producing offspring sexually?

Answer 9

It increases the chances of survival in certain situations.

Question 10

How does producing offspring sexually increase the chances of survival?

Answer 10

Parent cells create new babies with new genes, which in certain situations will have adaptations that help them survive.

Question 11

Sexual reproduction requires organisms to find…

Answer 11

Mates.

Question 12

Sexual reproduction requires more (1) and usually reproduces (2) offspring than asexual reproduction.

Answer 12

1. Time and Effort
2. Fewer

Question 13

What is self pollination?

Answer 13

When the pollen of a plant goes to the same stigma so it creates a genetical offspring when it fertilizes the egg.

Question 14

What is cross pollination?

Answer 14

When the pollen of a plant goes to the stigma of a different plant so it creates a unique offspring when it fertilizes the egg.

Question 15

What is the male part of the flower?

Answer 15

The stamen.

Question 16

What parts are included in the stamen?

Answer 16

Anther and Filament.

Question 17

Embryos break apart to form the first…

Answer 17

Leaves.

Question 18

What is pollen?

Answer 18

The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are transported by an anther in a flowering plant.

Question 19

What is the pollen tube?

Answer 19

A slender tube that grows from a pollen grain, penetrates the ovule, and releases male gametes.

Question 20

What is the petal?

Answer 20

The brightly-colored part of a flower that functions in attracting insects to the flower to try to contribute to pollination.

Question 21

What is the sepal?

Answer 21

The floral leaf or individual segment of the calyx, which protects the bud while it is maturing.

Question 22

What is the receptacle?

Answer 22

The flat concave or convex part of the stem from which all parts of the flower arise.

Question 23

What is the pedicel?

Answer 23

A small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence (flower cluster).

Question 24

What are the ovules?

Answer 24

The structures in the ovary containing the egg cells, which develop into seeds after fertilization.

Question 25

What is the ovary?

Answer 25

The region of the pistil containing one or more ovules.

Question 26

What is the style?

Answer 26

The region of the pistil bearing the stigma. It is the structure through which the pollen tube will form.

Question 27

What is the stigma?

Answer 27

The sticky surface region of the pistil where pollen germinates.

Question 28

What is the pistil?

Answer 28

The female reproductive system of the flower that consists of the stigma, style, and ovary.

Question 29

The 3 parts of the pistil is also known as the...

Answer 29

Carpel.

Question 30

What is the filament?

Answer 30

The stalk that supports the anther.

Question 31

What is the anther?

Answer 31

The structure of the flower that contains the pollen.

Question 32

What is the stamen?

Answer 32

The male reproductive system of the flower that consists of the filament and the anther.

Question 33

What gender is pollen?

Answer 33

Male.

Question 34

What gender are ovules?

Answer 34

Female.

Question 35

What is asexual reproduction?

Answer 35

The process of producing a new organism using just one parent.

Question 36

What is budding?

Answer 36

Increased cell division at one site on an organism which grows and eventually breaks off to become its own new individual.

Question 37

What is fragmentation?

Answer 37

A part of a mature organism breaks off and develops on its own to become a new organism.

Question 38

What is binary fission?

Answer 38

When a DNA is replicated, moves to opposite poles of the cell, and then elongates.

Question 39

What is parthenogenesis?

Answer 39

When an embryo develops without fertilization by a sperm cell, by which the offspring could be either identical or half-identical to the mother.

Question 40

What is vegetative propagation?

Answer 40

When plants produce new individuals directly from the parent organism.

Question 41

During sexual reproduction, each organism gets to pass on how much percent of their genes?

Answer 41

100%

Question 42

How does hydra and yeast asexually reproduce?

Answer 42

Budding.

Question 43

How do fungi, sea sponges, and star fish asexually reproduce?

Answer 43

Fragmentation.

Question 44

How does E Coli asexually reproduce?

Answer 44

Binary Fission.

Question 45

How do komado dragons asexually reproduce?

Answer 45

Parthenogenesis.

Question 46

What parts of the flower are in the pistil?

Answer 46

Stigma, style, and ovary.

Question 47

What parts of the flower are in the stamen?

Answer 47

Anther and Filament.