SNC1D1Name: ________________________

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION MICROVIEWER

Examine each slide and study the description in the text folder. After studying each slide and the printed text, answer the questions for that slide. Draw what you see (including all relevant labels) in the space provided.


Slide 1: Binary Fission (Paramecium)
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  1. What evidence can you find to show that the nucleus has just divided?

  2. What must follow the division of the nucleus to complete the process of binary fission?


Slide 2: Budding (Yeast)
  1. The structure that divides into 2 equal parts during the budding of yeast is:

  2. A yeast cell that forms a bud is called the "mother cell". Why is there no mother cell after a paramecium divides?

  3. How does budding in yeast resemble fission in paramecium?

  4. How does it differ?


Slide 3: Budding (Hydra)
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  1. Are Hydra unicellular or multicellular?

  2. How many Hydra buds can you see in this slide?


Slide 4: Sporulation (Yeast)
  1. The formation of equal sized spores in yeast most closely resembles what process that you have seen in this microviewer?

  2. What conditions stimulate yeast to form spores instead of buds?


Slide 5: Sporulation (Bread Mold)
  1. Are molds capable of photosynthesis? Explain.

  2. How does bread mold obtain nourishment?


Slide 6: Sporulation (Fern)
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  1. Does a fern spore grow into a plant just like the one that produced it?

  2. In what structures do fern spores form?

  3. What is a cluster of these structures called?

  4. The cycle in which a sexual generation produces an asexual generation is called:


Slide 7: Regeneration (Planarian)
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  1. What is another name for a planarian?

  2. Why is regeneration considered a form of asexual reproduction?

  3. Name another organism capable of regeneration:


Slide 8: Vegetative Propagation (Plant)
  1. Complete the phrase: In vegetative propagation...


Summary of Asexual Reproduction
  1. Only _________ parent is needed.

  2. It __________ (does/does not) involve the union of 2 cells.

  3. It always involves equal division of the _____________.

  4. The basic process is cell _____________________.

  5. The offspring will tend to have _____________________ (identical/unique) traits inherited from the parent cell.

Read pp. 29-35 and complete the table
Name of KingdomOrganism(s) in KingdomType(s) of Asexual Reproduction
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