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2a-2 asexual
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| asexual reproduction | one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and fertilization |
| fission | cell division in prokaryotes that forms two genetically identical cells |
| budding | a new organism grows by mitosis and cell division on the body of its parent |
| regeneration | occurs when offspring grows from piece of its parent |
| vegetative reproduction | a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring grows 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 from a cluster of cells taken from a particular organism |