1. Reproduction
Can you guess whether the following organisms reproduce using sexual or asexual reproduction?

2. Rats

3. Sexual reproduction (internal)
Rats reproduce through internal sexual reproduction, which means that the egg is fertilized by the sperm inside of the female.

4. Mosquitoes

5. Sexual reproduction
Mosquitoes feed on nectar, but female mosquitoes need the iron from your blood to produce eggs, which the male then fertilizes.
Most things that produces eggs reproduce through sexual reproduction.

6. hydra

7. Asexual Reproduction
Hydras reproduce asexually through a process called “budding.”
Budding is when a small part of the parents body becomes a new individual.

8. Bacteria

9. Asexual reproduction Bacteria reproduce asexually.
Bacteria are all single celled, so they simply divide in half using mitosis.
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10. Plant cuttings

11. Asexual reproduction
Many plants can be “shared” by cutting off pieces and replanting them somewhere else.

12. Salmon

13. Sexual reproduction (external)
Salmon reproduce through sexual reproduction, but fertilization occurs outside of the females body.
The female deposits her eggs and the male deposits his sperm, and fertilizations occurs in the water.

14. Mold

15. Asexual reproduction
Mold reproduces asexually by forming spores that grow into new, genetically identical mold colonies.

16. sunflowers

17. Sexual reproduction Almost all flowering plants reproduce sexually.
Pollen is the sperm and the egg is deep inside of the flower.
Insects help pass pollen from one plant to another, but some flowers can also self-fertilize.

18. Planaria

19. Asexual
Planaria reproduce asexually through a process called fragmentation.
If a planaria is cut in half, a new one will grow from each half.
Starfish can also reproduce this way.

20. Potato

21. Both! A potato can reproduce sexually or asexually.
So can strawberries.

22. amoeba

23. Asexual reproduction Amoeba reproduce asexually using mitosis.
When a single cell divided using mitosis, it is called binary fission.

24. butterfly

25. Sexual Reproduction
Remember: If there are eggs involved, then it’s sexual reproduction

26. Review: Asexual reproduction
Has only 1 parent
Uses mitosis
Produces offspring that are genetically identical to their parent.

27. Review: Sexual reproduction
Has 2 parents
Involves an egg
Has males and females
Uses meiosis
Produces offspring that are genetically different than the parents.