Reproduction, Asexual and
Sexual
1. What are the 2 major strategies or methods for
reproduction?
2. What type of reproduction do animals/humans use to reproduce?
Asexual Reproduction
3. Define Binary Fission.
4. What type of organism uses binary fission to reproduce?
5. Define Budding.
6. All variations of asexual reproduction have one thing in common. What is
that one thing that they have in common?
7. Is asexual reproduction a fast or slow process?
Sexual Reproduction
8. Is sexual reproduction more or less complex than asexual reproduction?
9. Sexual reproduction requires the production of _________________ during
the process of meiosis.
10.Gametes have the same/half the number of chromosomes as all the other
cells in the organism. (Circle the correct word)
11.What process creates gametes?
12.What is the key aspect that increases genetic variation during meiosis?
13.Define crossing over.
Comparing Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
14.Which type of reproduction need more energy to take place?
Sexual
or
Asexual
15.What are mutations?
16. At what rate do asexual reproducing organisms reproduce?
Fast or
Slow
17.Why do asexual reproducing organisms get out competed by sexually
reproducing organisms?
18.What does sexual selection do?
19.Draw a diagram of binary fission.
20.Draw a diagram of budding. (Look at beginning of the paper)