Asexual Reproduction

• Asexual Reproduction

  • only involves one parent
  • all offspring have identical copies of the parents DNA
  • very quick method of reproduction which allows the population of an organism to increase rapidly
• Asexual reproduction in microorganisms

  The cell of a single called organism divides into two identical cells when it is fully grown
• asexual reproduction in plants

  • Bulbs
  • tubers
  • runners
• Bulbs


  daffodil plants can produce bulbs.
• tubers

  potato plants can produce tubers
• runners


  strawberry plants produce stems called runners
• disadvantage to asexual reproduction

  all offspring produced are identical which could prevent populations from adapting to changing conditions.
• advantages to asexual reproduction

  can give quick population growth and does not rely on parents mating and locating each other