Asexual Reproduction Quiz

In plants, asexual reproduction is most likely to occur through the:

• Seeds

• Roots

• Flowers

• Leaves

After removing a cutting from a parent plant, farmers usually:

• Fertilize the cutting

• Replace the parent plant with the cutting

• Plant the cutting in a different location

• Discard the cutting

A clone has ______ chromosomes as its parent.

• Half the number of

• The same exact

• Double the number of

• Half of the same

Genetically, two trees in a single poplar grove are like which human relationship?

• Identical twins

• Mother and father

• Parent and child

• Brother and sister

When a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell, the genes in both cells:

• Combine

• Replicate

• Divide

• Change

What is true of all eukaryotic organisms?

• They reproduce asexually

• They are plants

• They are animals

• They have nuclei in their cells

Which organism reproduces through binary fission?

• Starfish

• Hydra

• Bacteria

• Coral

The offspring of a budding organism starts as a(n):

• Growth on the parent's body

• Colony of clones

• Cutting from the parent

• Unfertilized egg cell

Regeneration is a mechanism for:

• Movement

• Communication

• Defense

• Healing

Which example of regeneration is also considered reproduction?

• A starfish regrows a missing arm

• A worm cut in half grows into two separate worms

• A deer grows a new antler to replace a broken one

• A lizard's tail falls off and a new one grows back