AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A fisherman wants to alleviate his problem of starfish that are eating the oysters in his oyster farm. He decides to cut the starfish in half and throw it back into the water. What process will the starfish undergo, causing more problems for the fisherman?
A
Vegetative Propagation
B
Regeneration
C
Binary Fission
D
Budding
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -well, because starfish regenerate, and so they multiply, for example if you cut a starfish in half, the two cut parts of it will regenerate, that is to say grow again.

Detailed explanation-2: -The different types of asexual reproduction are binary fission, budding, vegetative propagation, spore formation (sporogenesis), fragmentation, parthenogenesis, and apomixis. The organisms that reproduce through asexual means are bacteria, archaea, many plants, fungi, and certain animals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction in which a new offspring is produced by a single parent. The new individuals produced are genetically and physically identical to each other, i.e., they are the clones of their parents. Asexual reproduction is observed in both multicellular and unicellular organisms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sexual reproduction Each parent contributes a gamete-a sex cell that has half of the normal DNA of a regular body cell. In males, the gametes are sperm and in females, the gametes are eggs. When these two gamete combine during fertilization, the result is a zygote, which then continues to develop into an embryo.

Detailed explanation-5: -binary fission, asexual reproduction by a separation of the body into two new bodies. In the process of binary fission, an organism duplicates its genetic material, or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and then divides into two parts (cytokinesis), with each new organism receiving one copy of DNA.

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