Asexual reproduction is a form of reproduction which does not involve meiosis, ploidy reduction, or fertilization. Asexual reproduction only takes one parent.
Asexual Reproduction
Asexual reproduction is the formation of new individuals from the cell(s) of a single parent.
asexual
pertaining to reproduction without sex cells
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asexual reproduction -- A type of reproduction involving only one parent that usually produces genetically identical offspring.
Asexual reproduction. Nonsexual means of reproduction which can include grafting and budding.
Autosome. A chromosome that is not involved in sex determination.
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Asexual reproduction: Reproduction of the individual without the production of gametes and zygotes.
Assimilation efficiency: The fraction of ingested food that is absorbed and used in metabolism.
Asexual Reproduction
The advantage of asexual reproduction is that it can produce large numbers of offspring very rapidly and it does not require a mate.
Asexual reproduction: Any form of reproduction not depending on a sexual process. It involves a single individual. Reproduction by cell division, fragmentation or budding.
asexual reproduction A method of reproduction in which genetically identical offspring are produced from a single parent; occurs by many mechanisms, including fission, budding, and fragmentation.
Asexual reproduction in bacteria and plants allows scientists to obtain genetically identical populations; this does not occur naturally in vertebrates, except in twins.
Asexual Reproduction
Sexual Reproduction
Sexual Reproduction: Fertilization
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asexual Lacking sexual reproduction; vegetative reproduction.
asexual (vegetative) reproduction The type of reproduction that takes place without the formation of gametes. Compare sexual reproduction.
During asexual reproduction, ciliates divide by transverse binary fission, as shown in Figure 11. You may recall that bacteria have a somewhat similar type of binary fission, although no nuclei occur in bacteria.
- Mode of asexual production in which there is no fusion of gametes but the structure involved are commonly concerned in sexual reproduction.
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fission - asexual reproduction in which the parent organism divides into two or more parts, each developing into genetically identical individuals.
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Asexual (vegetative) reproduction
A form of duplication using only mitosis.
Example, a new plant grows out of the root or a shoot from an existing plant.
Produces only genetically identical offspring since all divisions are by mitosis.
vegetable - 1. asexual; somatic (Glossary of PM); 2. any plant, as distinguished from animal or inorganic matter (Webster)
venation - the manner in which veins are arranged as of insects' wings (Webster) ...
Animal - kingdom composed of multicellular organisms divided into two divisions: vertebrates and invertebrates, who obtain their food from external sources and reproduce sexually or asexually ...
Cloning The process of asexually producing a group of cells (clones), all genetically identical, from a single ancestor.
In a strictly asexual lineage, recombination is not possible (in sexual lineages it, of course, is). Thus, any mutation that occurs in an asexual lineage can only be corrected in one of two manners.
Exact copies are formed by mitosis (asexually) in eukaryotic organisms. Prokaryotes need only replicate their single DNA molecule to make new organisms like themselves.
In general there is an asexual phase where the seaweed's cells are diploid, a sexual phase where the cells are haploid followed by fusion of the male and female gametes.
They can reproduce sexually or asexually. Sometimes the DNA of two microbes mixes and a new one is created (sexual reproduction). Sometimes a microbe splits into two identical pieces by itself (asexual reproduction).
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A group of genetically identical cells or individuals derived by asexual division from a common ancestor.
An individual formed by some asexual process so that it is genetically identical to its parent.
See also DNA clone.
Budding
The production of buds; asexual reproduction by development of buds, which may or may not be set free, in plants and many primitive animals, resulting in clones.
exponential growth, binary fission, asexual reproduction, population dynamics, lag phase, log phase, stationary phase, death phase
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Organisms that reproduce asexually are haploid. Sexually reproducing organisms are diploid (having two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent). In humans, only their egg and sperm cells are haploid.
Tissue or cells multiplying by asexual division, grown for experimentation.
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conidium (plural: conidia). A type of asexual fungal spore.
control action guideline. A guideline used to determine if pest control action is needed.
1. (Science: botany) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore.
The Subkingdom of the Kingdom Animalia, in older classification systems, that includes all unicellular organisms that lack differentiated tissues and that primarily reproduce through asexual means, although conjugation does occur.
 See also: Organ, Plant, Cells, Animal, Reproduction
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