Reproduction

• REPRODUCTION

  • A process by which an organism may produce offspring and

  perpetuate its species.
• ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

  Offspring comes from a single parent. It does not involve gametes or sex

  cells.
• FISSION is the process which one cell divides into two.
• FRAGMENTATION is a process whereby species of an organism may break off and

  regenerates into whole an adult organism.
• BUDDING is a type of asexual reproduction in which a small group of cells grows

  from the body of an adult to become another individual.
• SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

  • Reproduction that involves sex cells; the sperm cell and egg cell unite to

  produce.
• FERTILIZATION is the joining of male and female cells in sexual production.
• HEREDITY is the passing of traits from parents to its offspring.
• GENE is a section of DNA that control the substances the cell makes.
• JAMES WATTSON AND FRANCIS CRICK described the structure of DNA.