BIOL-UA 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sexual Reproduction, Multicellular Organism, Gamete

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Asexual reproduction = creation of offspring without the fusion of egg and sperm. Sexual reproduction = creation of offspring by fusion of a male gamete (sperm) and female gamete (egg) to form a zygote. Fission - separation of a parent into two or more individuals of about the same size. Fragmentation - breaking of the body into pieces, which develop into adults. Budding - new individuals arise from outgrowths of existing ones. Parthenogenesis - the development of a new individual from an unfertilized egg. Diversity - mixing genetic information from different individuals. An increase in variation in offspring, providing an increase in the reproductive success of parents in changing environments. An increase in the rate of adaptation. A shuffling of genes and the elimination of harmful genes from a population. For many animals, finding a partner for sexual reproduction may be challenging. Solution: hermaphroditism - one individual has male and female reproductive systems.

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