Asexual Reproduction Key Concept Builder LESSON 2 Key Concept

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Key Concept Builder
LESSON 2
Asexual Reproduction
Key Concept What is asexual reproduction, and why is it beneficial?
Directions: Respond to each statement on the lines provided.
1. Define asexual reproduction.
2. Explain why the offspring of asexual reproduction are genetically identical to each
other and to their parent.
4. Explain how plant cloning is useful for farmers and scientists.
5. Identify the two main advantages for organisms that reproduce asexually.
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3. List six types of asexual reproduction.
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Key Concept Builder
LESSON 2
Asexual Reproduction
Key Concept How do the types of asexual reproduction differ?
Directions: Complete the Venn diagram by writing features of fission on the left and mitotic cell division
on the right. Write what they have in common in the center.
1. Fission
2. Both
3. Mitotic cell division
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Directions: Respond to each statement in the space provided.
4. Draw a picture showing a hydra budding.
5. Explain how budding can produce new
organisms.
6. Draw a picture showing a planarian forming
two offspring by animal regeneration.
7. Explain how animal regeneration can
produce new organisms.
8. Draw a picture showing vegetative
reproduction.
9. Explain how vegetative reproduction can
produce new organisms.
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Name
Date
Key Concept Builder
Class
LESSON 2
Asexual Reproduction
Key Concept How do the types of asexual reproduction differ?
Directions: Put a check mark on the line before each phrase that applies to cloning.
1. a form of sexual reproduction
2. produces genetically identical offspring
3. a technique developed by scientists
4. occurs in nature
5. produces offspring from a cell or a cluster of cells
6. used by unicellular organisms
Directions: Place your response on the lines provided.
7. Based on your check marks above, write a paragraph that describes what cloning is.
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Name
Date
Key Concept Builder
Class
LESSON 2
Asexual Reproduction
Key Concept How do the types of asexual reproduction differ?
Directions: Work with a partner to answer each question on the lines provided.
1. How has the definition of cloning changed from the past to today?
2. Which type of asexual reproduction in plants is most similar to animal regeneration?
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Explain your answer.
3. If a sea star grows a new arm, is the regeneration a form of asexual reproduction?
Explain your answer.
4. Why is growing a new plant from cloning different from vegetative reproduction?
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