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Science: Chapter 1-7
How do organisms make more of their own kind?
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6th Grade
07/08/2008

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Term
What is the process by which living things produce new organisms like themselves?
Definition
reproduction
Term

What term means

the new organisms

produced by a living thing?

Definition
offspring
Term
What are the 2 kinds of reproduction?
Definition
  1. asexual reproduction
  2. sexual reproduction
Term
What kind of reproduction needs only ONE parent?
Definition

asexual reproduction

 

The new offspring is an EXACT copy of its parent.

Term
What kind of reproduction needs TWO parents?
Definition

sexual reproduction

 

The new offspring is NOT excatly like either of its parents.

Term

Name 2 forms of

asexual reproduction.

Definition
  1. fission (simplest form)
  2. budding
Term
What form of asexual reproduction involves the parent splitting into two?
Definition

fission

(simplest form)

 

ex: bacteria

Term
What form of asexual reproduction involves a growth from the parent organism that splits off?
Definition

budding

 

ex: yeast, coral

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