1. Reproduction and Life Cycles Sunday, 22 July 2018
Learning question: What is a life cycle?

2. Learning objectives: Recall that all organisms have a life cycle
Distinguish between complete and incomplete metamorphosis, using insect life cycle as examples
Describe the life cycle of the frog and flowering plant

3. Key words:
Life cycle
Growth
Development
Metamorphosis

4. Life Cycles What is a life cycle?
the series of changes in the life of an organism including reproduction.

5. Incomplete and complete metamorphosis
change or transformation during a stage of development.
Complete metamorphosis
4 stages and organism looks different at all stages e.g. Butterfly
Incomplete metamorphosis
3 stages and organism looks similar at all stages e.g. grasshopper

6. Frog Life Cycle Undergoes complete metamorphosis
Spawn tadpoles  tadpole without gills  tadpole with legs  froglet  Frog

7. Plant life cycles
There are many different plants on the planet, but flowering plants all have a similar life cycle.
Flower make pollen grains that contain the male sex cell. This joins with the female part at fertilisation and leads to the development of a seed
Seeds germinate and grown into a new plant

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