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Asexual Reproduction
Types of Asexual Reproduction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Asexual Reproduction | a type of reproduction in which one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and fertilization. |
| fission | cell division that forms two genetically identical cells |
| budding | the process during which a new organism grows by mitosis and cell division on the body of its parent. |
| regeneration | a type of asexual reproduction that occurs when an offspring grows from a piece of its parent. |
| vegetative reproduction | a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring grow from a part of a parent plant. |
| cloning | a type of asexual reproduction performed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or a cluster of cells taken from a multicellular organism. |
| mitotic cell division | an organism forms two offspring through mitosis and cell division |
| stolons | long horizontal stems |
| tissue culture | the process of growing living tissue in a laboratory |
| meristem | a part of a plant where cloning is rapidly undergoing mitosis and cell division |
| plant cloning | a process by which disease in the plant are removed by the meristem |
| animal cloning | all of a clones chromosomes come from one parent, the clone is a genetic copy of its parent |
| mutations | genetic changes |
| bud | offspring |
| coli | common bacterium |