Reproduction

• What does sexual reproduction involve?

  Fusion of male and female gametes. As there are TWO parents, the offspring contain a mixture of their parents' genes
• What does asexual reproduction involve?

  ONE parent - Offspring are clones of the parent
• Asexual reproduction - meiosis or mitosis?

  Mitosis
• What is meiosis?

  Meiosis is a type of cell division that produces gametes (sex cells) with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.