Sexual vs Asexual Reproduction

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

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The offspring from asexually reproduced organisms are?

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

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Requires two parents

• sexual

• asexual

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Requires only one parent

• sexual

• asexual

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If two organisms reproduce sexually, then their offspring will exhibit a genetic makeup that is -

• identical to only one parent
• identical to all of its siblings
• a unique combination of traits
• the recessive traits of each parent

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Which is a type of Asexual Reproduction

• Sexual

• Binary fission

• Cells

• organism

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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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Which of the following describes the main advantages of sexual reproduction? 

• requires lots of time/energy
• no new gene combos can arise 
• diversity
• looks identical to the parent

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Prokaryotes reproduce asexually through -

• Spore formation
• Vegetative propagation
• Binary fission

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Is budding an example of asexual or sexual reproduction?

• sexual
• both
• asexual
• neither

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