Asexual Reproduction

• There are two modes of reproduction in animals:

  1. Sexual Reproduction
  2. Asexual Reproduction
• Budding -> a protuberance or bud is formed on the body of the parent organism
• In budding, the bud slowly grows and develops into a new organism.
• budding is done by yeast and hydra
• Binary Fission -> the process by which the nuclei of an organism splits into two identical daughter cells
• binary fission is done by amoeba and paramecium
• in asexual reproduction,

  1. only one parent is involved.
  2. offspring is identical to the parent organism.
• in binary fission, the nucleus keeps elongating and finally divides itself to produce 2 daughter nuclei
• asexual reproduction shows that the offspring is the exact replica of the parent