Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

The basic unit of structure and function in living things

• cell

• daughter cells

• sexual reproduction

• gamete

The cells that are produced as a result of mitosis. These cells are identical to each other, and also to the original parent cell.

• cell

• gamete

• asexual reproduction

• daughter cell

A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents

• cell

• gamete

• daughter cells

• sexual reproduction

process of reproduction involving a single parent that results in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent

• gamete

• daughter cell

• asexual reproduction

• offspring

sex cell: sperm or egg

• gamete

• cell

• offspring

• gene

genetically identical

• mitosis

• meiosis

• gamete

• cell

a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.

• gene

• gamete

• chromosome

• offspring

Product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents

• gamete

• offspring

• cell

• gene

cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes

• Mitosis

• Meiosis

type of asexual reproduction in which an organism replicates its DNA and divides in half, producing two identical daughter cells

• binary fission

• budding

• fragmentation