Asexual/Sexual 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 off spring 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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Genetic variation is observed within a species. What is another term for variation?

• difference

• trouble

• similarity

• illness

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Starfish can asexually reproduce by producing offspring from a broken piece of the parent organism.  This is an example of...

• budding
• fragmentation
• binary fission
• vegetative propagation

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What type of asexual reproduction is illustrated in this picture?

• budding
• fragmentation
• binary fission
• vegetative propagation

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Bacteria reproduce this way.

• budding
• fragmentation
• binary fission
• vegetative propagation

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When offspring grow from an offshoot (often called a runner) of a parent plant:

• fission

• budding

• cloning

• vegetative propagation

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