Asexual Reproduction

Reproduction means producing new living things. Both animals and plants also reproduce to make new animals or plants of the same species. There are two main ways of reproducing asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction.

Asexual Reproduction

In asexual reproduction there is usually only one parent. All the offspring are identical to the parent. Some plants grow new plants on stems called runners. When the new plant touch the ground roots grow into the soil and it grows as a new plant.

Hydra is an animal made of many cells. It grows little buds on the parent body. They separate and each one grows into a new animal.

Microscopic organisms like amoeba are made of one cell. They reproduce asexually by the cell dividing into two.

There are 3 methods of asexual reproduction are fission, regeneration and budding.

Fission is the simplest form of asexual reproduction and occurs when a single organism splited  in 2 and becomes 2 separate organisms. Fission is common among unicellular.

Regeneration usually refers to the regrowth of a missing or damaged body part. In this way geckos grow a new tail if they lose one. In some animals however , a whole new animal can grow from a part of an existing animal.

Budding is another form of asexual reproduction. In budding a group of self-supportive cells grow from the organism and detach and become a separate organism. Unlike eggs or spores, buds are multi-cellular.

Asexual reproduction occurs in nature all the time. Now, there is a lot  of science research being done in laboratories that involve asexual reproduction. Cloning is the development of a new animal or plant from cells of the parent. there was a great deal of scientific work on cloning over many years, but cloning become well known when dolly, a sheep was cloned in 1996.

Asexual Reproduction