1. What is sexual reproduction in plants?
POLLINATION / FERTILIZATION –
Reproduction that requires two parent plants (ex. Flowering plants / Seeds)

2. What is asexual reproduction in plants?
Reproduction involving only one parent plant – PRODUCES OFFSPRING IDENTICAL TO THE PARENT !
A plant can sometimes sprout new growth from its stems, roots, or leaves (NOT SEEDS) when cells split!

3. Plants: Reproduction What are ways plants reproduce asexually?
TUBERS and BULBS
Types of underground stems.
Potatoes “eyes” can grow into roots and shoots to produce a new plant.
Onions are big Bulbs that split to make new bulbs from the stem/onion.
Bulbs Split
Bulbs Split

4. Plants: Reproduction What are ways plants reproduce asexually? RUNNERS
Stems that run along the ground.
Strawberries, ivy, Bermuda grass grow from the tips of runners.
Runners create new plant
Runners create new plant

5. Plants: Reproduction What are ways plants reproduce asexually?
STEM CUTTINGS
Stem is cut and planted. Roots may form from the cutting, and then a full plant develops.
Cutting from old plants are put into new soil
Cutting from old plants

6. Plants: Reproduction What are ways plants reproduce asexually? ROOTS
Fruit trees and bushes send up “suckers” or new shoots from the roots and produce new plants from root pieces.
New Plant forms from roots
New Plant forms from roots

7. Asexual Reproduction NO SEEDS NEEDED! New Plant forms from roots
Cutting from old plants are put into new soil
Bulbs Split
Runners create new plant
NO SEEDS NEEDED!

8. Asexual Reproduction NO SEEDS NEEDED! Bulbs Split
Cutting from old plants
New Plant forms from roots
Runners create new plant

9. Asexual Reproduction No Seeds! CELLS DIVIDE *******
Plants can produce roots from cuttings that are placed in water
Bulbs
Split
Asexually
New potato plants grow from stems
Plants can send out runners that grow into new plants