Lesson Flashcards: Methods of Asexual Reproduction

A pattern of reproduction that involves alternation between two distinct forms (sexual and asexual or haploid and diploid) for the same individual organism

A type of asexual reproduction in some unicellular and multicellular organisms in which a new organism develops from a small projection or bud that develops to maturity while still attached to the parent organism

A cell that has two complete sets of chromosomes (2n)

The female reproductive cell, or gamete

A type of asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms in which the organism duplicates its genetic material and then divides into two parts (cytokinesis)

A type of reproduction that only involves one parent and does not involve the fusion of gametes

The name of the last step when the parent cell divides into two daughter cells in both mitosis and binary fission

A genetically identical copy of an organism or DNA sequence

A type of asexual reproduction that occurs in plants when an offspring grows from a fragment or piece of the parent plant

The ability of an organism to repair or regrow a damaged or missing part, which is sometimes considered a type of asexual reproduction