Heredity, Sexual, and Asexual Reproduction

The scientific study of heredity

• Genetics
• Allele
• Dominant
• Biology

The passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring 

• Heredity
• Chromosome
• Genes
• Chemistry

A mode of reproduction by which an organism arises from a single organism and inherit the identical genes of that parent

• Asexual Reproduction
• Sexual Reproduction
• Genetic Variation
• Alleles

A mode of reproduction in which an organism arises from two organisms and inherits half of its DNA from each parent

• Sexual Reproduction
• Asexual Reproduction
• Cloning
• Fragmentation

Prokaryotes (bacteria) reproduce asexually via -

• spore formation
• bud creation
• vegetative propagation
• binary fission

The offspring from asexually reproduced organisms are?

• Different than their parents
• Identical to parents
• Like a combination from both parents
• A different species

Requires only one parent

• sexual
• asexual

Requires two parents

• sexual
• asexual

All of the offspring of an organism have the same genetic material, which is identical to the parent organism. From this, we can conclude that this organism -

• makes its own food
• is unicellular
• live in a marine habitat
• reproduces asexually

When comparing the offspring of sexually and asexually reproducing organisms, we would expect the genetic material (DNA) of the sexually reproducing organism to -

• contain fewer mutations
• be lesser in quantity
• be simpler overall
• show more variation