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Enumerate the important facts of organism's reproduction
Reproduction is the biological process by which new organisms/offsprings are produced by the parental organisms. The process of Reproduction are of two types i.e. sexual and asexual.
Sexual Reproduction:
This involves two individuals of the same species, usually a male
and female. Here the male and female sex cells come together for
fertilization to take place. After this the newly fertilized cell
goes on to become a new organism, the offspring. Note that not all
sexual reproduction involve mating.
There is a process of recombination of genes involved in it.
Asexual reproduction:
This form of reproduction occurs without the involvement of another
partner. Asexual reproduction is very common in single cell
organisms and in many plants. There are many forms of asexual
reproduction. Mitosis, fission, budding, fragmentation, sporulation
and vegetative reproduction are all examples of asexual
reproduction. In unicellular organisms, the parent cell just
divides to produce two daughter cells. The term for kind of cell
division is Mitosis.
The offsprings are usually a clone of their parents.