Reproduction:
Is the biological process by which new offspring individual organism
is produced from their parents. Reproduction is a fecundamental
feature of all knows life; each individual organism exists as the
result of reproduction.
Many types of reproduction:
1. Sexual reproduction
2. Asexual reproduction
Sexual reproduction: Is a biological process by which organisms create descendants that have a
combination of genetic material contributed from two different members of species.
Most organisms from 2 different types of gametes. In these species the two sexes
are referred to as male (producing sperm or microspores) and female (producing egg
or megaspores).
Animals:
Insects:
Asexual reproduction:
Is a biological process by which an organism creates a genetically similar or identical copy
of itself without a contribution of genetic material from another individual.
Plants:
Plants on the other hand have mitosis occurring in spores, which are produced by
meiosis. Flowering plants are the dominant plant form on land and they reproduce by
sexual and asexual means. The sperm is produced in pollen grains. Nonflowering plants
like ferns, moss and liverworts use other means of sexual reproduction.
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