Asexual and Sexual Reproduction

• Heredity

  the study of inheritance and of the processes involved in transmitting genetic material to the next generation of cells or offspring
• Asexual Reproduction

  • living things that originate from 1 parent cells and are products of asexual reproduction
  • offspring are produced without the fusion of gametes (sex cells)
• Sexual Reproduction

  • organisms that reproduce via sexual reproduction have 2 sources of hereditary material
  • gametes fuse to form zygotes