Asexual Reproduction

Which statement is true of plants and animals that reproduce asexually?

• They have no genes

• The have genes but no chromosomes

• They have offspring that are exactly like the parent

• They have offspring that combine the traits of two parents

In plants that reproduce sexually, the pollen and ovule combine to produce...

• seeds

• sex cells

• eggs

Asexual reproduction requires

• only one parent to produce offspring

• two parents to produce offspring

• a combination of parents to produce offspring

• two clones to produce offspring

An identical genetic copy of an organism's parent

• vegetative reproduction

• clone

• seeds

A group of rapidly dividing cells develops on an organism and breaks away to become a new organism

• binary fission

• budding

• fragmentation

• spores

Asexual reproduction in which each fragment of an organism develops into a clone of its parent

• binary fission

• budding

• fragmentation

• spores

Reproductive cells that develop into new individuals by repeated mitosis.

• binary fission

• budding

• fragmentation

• spores

Single parent cell splits into two equal parts that have the same copies of generic material.

• binary fission

• budding

• fragmentation

• spores

root cells divide repeatedly to form structures that develop into a plant that is identical to the parent

• vegetative reproduction

• clone

• binary fission

Bacteria reproduce asexually by ...

• budding

• fragmentation

• binary fission

• cloning