Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

When a starfish grows a new body off a broken arm, what kind of reproduction is this?

• Sexual
• Differentiation
• Asexual 
• Specialization

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Where does an offspring get its traits in asexual reproduction?

• From both parents

• From only one parent

• From neither parent

• There are no traits handed down

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Sexual reproduction requires _____ parents and asexual reproduction requires ___ parents

• 1,1
• 2,2
• 2,1
• 1,2 

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What is an advantage of sexual reproduction?

• Allows genetic variation
• Only needs one parent
• Happens very quickly
• Offspring are exact copies of parent

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What is one disadvantage of sexual reproduction?

• Only one parent needed
• Off spring are exact copies of parents
• Happens very quickly
• Needs two parents

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Which is a type of Asexual Reproduction

• Sexual 
• Binary fission
• Cells 
• organism 

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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

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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

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Why is genetic variation considered strongly beneficial to a species?

• Differences among individuals allows the species to adapt to change

• A world without differences would be boring

• Genetic variation prevents harmful mutations

• Genetic variation actually harms a species

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How would you describe offspring created by sexual reproduction?

• Exact copies of the parents

• Unlike the parents in any way

• A blending of both parent, sharing traits from both

• Only sharing traits with the mother