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Reproduction B1
Question | Answer |
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What is sexual reproduction? | Where genetic information from two organisms is combined to produce genetically different offspring. |
What are gametes? | Sex cells (egg and sperm cells). |
How do chromosomes explain variation in a species? | The mixture of half of the chromosomes from the mother and the other half from the father creates genetically unique offspring with some characteristics from each parent, causing variation. |
What is asexual reproduction? | Where a parent cell is split down the middle to form two identical sets of half chromosomes that a membrane forms around, allowing the remaining DNA to replicate itself to produce the rest of the needed X chromosomes. |
What are some uses of asexual reproduction? | It's how animals and plants grow and replace cells. |
Give an example of an organism that use asexual reproduction to produce offspring. | Bacteria. |