Sexual and asexual reproduction

• What type of cells does meiosis produce?

  Non-identical cells
• What type of cells does mitosis produce?

  Identical cells
• What is involved in sexual reproduction?

  Joining of male and female gametes
• What are the male and female gametes in animals?

  • Male gamete: Sperm
  • Female gamete: Egg cell
• What are the male and female gametes in flowering plants?

  • Male gamete: Pollen
  • Female gamete: Egg cell
• What is a gamete?

  A sex cell
• What does asexual reproduction involve?

  Only one parent and no fusion of gametes
• What process is involved in the formation of gametes?

  Meiosis
• What is the result of asexual reproduction?

  Genetically identical offspring (clones)
• What type of cell division is involved in asexual reproduction?

  Only mitosis
• How does genetic information mixing differ between sexual and asexual reproduction?

  Sexual reproduction mixes genetic information, asexual does not