1. Asexual Reproduction

2. Asexual Reproduction: Only one parent is required to produce offspring
Asexual Reproduction: Only one parent is required to produce offspring. Offspring look identical to the parent and to each other.
Clone: An identical genetic copy of its parents

3. 5 types of
Asexual Reproduction:

4. 1) Spore formation: Some organisms reproduce using spores. 

5. Moulds reproduce by formation of spores that are genetically identical to the mould cell
Spores are released into the air from a structure call a sporangium

6. Spores are light weight, and rely on water or wind to carry the spores away from the parent.
Many types of spore have a tough outer coating that allows them to survive harsh conditions.

8. 1)Binary Fission: a single parent cell replicates its genetic material and divides into two equal parts.
If the single cell
contains a nucleus
the cell undergoes
mitosis

9. Bacteria have no nucleus, so they do not undergo mitosis.
Some bacteria only have a single ring of DNA, and can duplicate very rapidly.
Bacteria tend to mutate rapidly, and can become very resistant to antibiotics, creating SUPER BUGS

11. 2) Budding: Yeasts reproduce by
budding. Yeasts are unicellular, eukaryotic
organisms.

12. Areas of an individual organism may undergo repeated mitosis and cell division, which will grow a bud that pinches off to become a separate identical cell
Example of a hydra budding

13. The bud may detach from the parent and become a new individual or remain attached.
This way colonies can stay in the same place, or move to a new location

14. 3)Fragmentation: some organisms break apart as a result of injury
3)Fragmentation: some organisms break apart as a result of injury. The fragment then develops into a clone of its parent.

15. Animals can do this as long as they contain enough of the parent genetic information.
Reproduction after fragmentation does not
happen without
regeneration.
Regeneration: the ability
to regrow a body part,
a tissue, or an organ.

16. 5) Vegetative reproduction: Plants can reproduce sexually and asexually. Asexual reproduction: vegetative reproduction
New plants grow from a portion of the roots, stems or leaves of an existing plant that will eventually develop into a plant identical to the parent.

17. Cutting Method:

18. Splitting Method: A plant is split into two or
more pieces, each containing intact shoots
and roots