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Summary Life Science Notes
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Understandable and easily interpreted IEB and NSC Life Sciences summaries for grade 12. All content needed for Final Examinations.
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Reproduction in flowering plantsWhat happens when organisms reproduce?
New generations of the same kind of individuals are formed to
replace those individuals that eventually die.
Reproduction is essential
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2 types of reproduction
1. Asexual reproduction
2. Sexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction: formation of new individuals from a single
parents without the production of gametes.
- offspring carry same genetic material as parents —> clones
Sexual reproduction: fusion of male and female gametes to form a
zygote.
- offspring carry all different combos of the parents genetic
material —> genetically different
Gamete: sex cell
- male: sperm cell
- Female: ovum / egg cell
- Found in multicellular organisms that reproduce sexually
- Produced via meiosis
Meiosis: special type of cell division where number of
chromosomes in the nuclear of the cell is halved.
Haploid: cell contenting half the normal number of chromosomes.
Mitosis: cell division used to produce identical cells called daughter
cells which have identical same genetic material and chromosome
number as the parent cell.
, Diploid: Cell containing the normal number of chromosomes for the
organism
Fertilisation: fusion of gametes.
- when a haploid ovum and haploid sperm join together to make a
diploid zygote.
- External fertilisation: outside the animal body
- Internal fertilisation: inside the female body
Zygote: cell formed from the fusing of an ovum and sperm cell.
- After fertilisation, zygote grows with mitosis into embryo and
then foetus.
Unicellular: organism consisting of one cell
Multicellular: organism consisting of many different cells
ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION
- when a single parent forms new individuals without the
production of gametes.
- Cells divide by mitosis
- Offspring genetically identical to parent
- Clone of parent
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
Only one parent needs to be present - no energy/ All organisms in population are the same - little
effort needed genetic variation
Desirable characteristics retained Genetic weaknesses of parent present in offspring
Many offspring in a short space of time - rapid Population becomes overcrowded
population growth
Genetically identical individuals adapted to specific
environment
Budding / Fragmentation: yeast, hydra, marine sponges
Binary Fission: Bacteria and Amoeba
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