AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The offspring of a budding organism starts as a growth on the parent’s body. By definition, budding is a process of developing buds. A bud in itself is an outgrowth of an organism that is capable of growing and becoming an independent organism.

Detailed explanation-2: -A new individual is formed by a bud growing from the body of the “parent”. Since no gametes are involved in the process, budding is a form of asexual reproduction and the “offspring” is a clone of the parent. Rather than sex cells, somatic cells are involved.

Detailed explanation-3: -Budding is a type of asexual reproduction that commonly occurs in multicellular and unicellular organisms. In budding, offspring is a clone of the parent. In budding, the parent divides into two cells of the same size, and the new cell grows from an old cell.

Detailed explanation-4: -Budding is a form of asexual reproduction that results from the outgrowth of a part of the body leading to a separation of the “bud” from the original organism and the formation of two individuals, one smaller than the other. Budding occurs commonly in some invertebrate animals such as hydras and corals.

Detailed explanation-5: -Budding or blastogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site.