Biology / Unit 13 Bio 3321 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Asexual Reproduction Methods
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The idea
Asexual reproduction produces offspring from a single parent without gamete fusion, through methods including budding, fission, and parthenogenesis, the development of an unfertilized egg into an offspring.
In practice
A hydra reproduces by budding, growing a genetically identical offspring directly off its own body wall.
Where people slip
Asexual reproduction produces genetically identical offspring barring mutation, unlike sexual reproduction's shuffled genetic combinations.
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