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What do animals reproduce?
To reproduce, animals need a male and female. Together they can create offspring, or babies. Some animals, such as chickens, fish and snakes, lay eggs which contain their offspring. Other animals, including humans, tigers and sheep, grow their babies inside them until they are developed enough to be born.
How do most animals reproduce?
Most animals are diploid organisms, meaning that their body (somatic) cells are diploid and haploid reproductive (gamete) cells are produced through meiosis. Most animals undergo sexual reproduction. This fact distinguishes animals from fungi, protists, and bacteria, where asexual reproduction is common or exclusive.
What did you learn about animal reproduction?
Asexual reproduction in animals occurs through fission, budding, fragmentation, and parthenogenesis. Sexual reproduction may involve fertilization inside the body or in the external environment. Sexual reproduction starts with the combination of a sperm and an egg in a process called fertilization.
How do animals reproduce and develop?
Most animals reproduce through sexual reproduction, but some animals are capable of asexual reproduction through parthenogenesis, budding, or fragmentation. Following fertilization, an embryo is formed, and animal tissues organize into organ systems; some animals may also undergo incomplete or complete metamorphosis.
What is the role of the female animal in reproduction?
The female reproductive system has two functions: The first is to produce egg cells, and the second is to protect and nourish the offspring until birth.
What is true about animal reproduction?
What animals reproduce by themselves?
Jellyfish, sea anemones and flatworms all use a process called budding to reproduce. This complex process of reproduction, most commonly associated with strawberries, sees the parent produce cloned cells of itself, which eventually break away and grow into exact replicas of that parent.
What type of animals reproduce sexually?
Most organisms that reproduce through this method can also reproduce sexually. Animals like water fleas reproduce by parthenogenesis. Most kinds of wasps, bees, and ants (which have no sex chromosomes) also reproduce by parthenogenesis. Additionally, some reptiles and fish are capable of reproducing in this manner.
What types of animals are asexual?
The most commonly known animals known to reproduce asexually are invertebrate animals such as aphids, flatworms, hydra, Bdelloid rotifers, ants, bees, parasitic wasps, coral and starfish.
What do animals use sexual reproduction?
Sexual reproduction is the production of a new organism from two parents by making use of their sex cells or gametes. The humans, fish, frogs, cats and dogs, all reproduce by the method of sexual reproduction.