Study Guide
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Asexual Reproduction?
Advantage: Quick Reproduction, Requires no mate, only 1 parent needed
Disadvantage: Can not adapt to change, no genetic diversity, DNA is exactly the same as parent
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Sexual Reproduction?
Advantage: Genetic Diversity, Can adapt to change, Genes are changing each generation
Disadvantage: Slow Reproduction and 2 parents are needed (male and female)
3. How can plant reproduce asexually and sexually? (They reproduce both ways; example:
blackberry and strawberry plants)
Sexual Reproduction is through seed production
Asexual Reproduction when branches grow roots whenever the stem touches the ground. This
produces an identical offspring of parent.
4. Which reproduction are mitosis and meiosis associated with? How many daughter cells are
produced with each? How is your genetic information (heredity) passed down in each cell
division?
Mitosis: Cell division in Asexual Reproduction. 2 Daughter cells exactly like the parent. Heredity is
passed to offspring: 100% DNA from 1 parent.
Meiosis: Cell division in Sex Cells during Sexual Reproduction. 4 Daughter Cells not exactly like the
parent. Heredity is passed to offspring: 50% from one parent; 50% from other parent.
5. All the forms of Asexual Reproduction with examples of each.
Binary Fission: Single Celled Organisms. Exact copy of DNA. Identical to Parent. Example:
Bacteria
Budding: Example: Hydra Organism has an offspring grow off of the parent
Fragmentation: Example: Mold and Yeast; The parent breaks into and forms two organisms.
