asexual reproduction
Gamete-free multiplication
Asexual reproduction is reproduction without the fusion of sex cells—a single organism produces offspring genetically identical to itself.
Bacteria divide, starfish regenerate from severed limbs, strawberry plants send out runners.
The offspring are clones.
Contrast with sexual reproduction, which combines genetic material from two parents.
- parthenogenesisDevelopment from unfertilized ova
- sporesAsexual reproductive bodies
- daughter cellsCells from division
- single cellOne microscopic living unit
- mitosisNuclear division producing identical cells
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- reproductionbirth, baby, egg, sperm, pregnancy
- animal reproductionmating, give birth, fertilization, copulation, spawning
- plant reproductionpollination, cross-pollination, self-pollination, flowering, blooming
- propagationcloning, seed starting, grafting, cuttings, seedlings
- Orchid Propagationpropagation, keiki, division, cloning, tissue culture
- ascomycetescleistothecium, Penicillium, morel, truffle, ergot
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Two-parent genetic combination
conjugation · fertilization · mating · outcrossing · copulation
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Two-parent genetic combination
outcrossing · hybridization · cross-breeding · genetic mixing · gene flow
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