INTRODUCTION:Reproduction (or procreation) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parents". Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the result |
NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS
MS-LS3-2: Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation. KENTUCKY CORE CONTENT FOR ASSESSMENT SC-07-3.4.2: Students will describe and compare sexual and asexual reproduction. Reproduction is a characteristic of all living systems and is essential to the continuation of every species as evidenced through observable patterns. A distinction should be made between organisms that reproduce asexually and those that reproduce sexually. In species that reproduce sexually, including humans and plants, male and female sex cells carrying genetic information unite to begin the development of a new individual. |
Citation: Reproduction. (2015, February 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 03:15, March 24, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reproduction&oldid=646295926