Mitosis+and+Meiosis

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** Q1. What are the advantages + disadvantages of both sexual and asexual reproduction? **

** A1. **

** Advantages of asexual reproduction is that it is much faster than sexual reproduction since partner is not needed. Another advantage of asexual reproduction is that an animal or a pollen grain doesn’t have to travel to breed and it is more reliable. **

** Advantage of sexual reproduction is that it has genetic variation (the ability of organism to adapt over time) and requires two parents. **

** Disadvantage of asexual reproduction is that it doesn’t allow any type of genetic variation, which means it has less variety and evolution. **

** Disadvantage of sexual reproduction is that energy must be consumed in order to find a suitable mate. In addition genetic disorders, mutations can occur during sexual reproduction and a few offspring can be reproduced at a time. **



** Q2. Name 3 organisms that reproduce sexually and 3 that reproduce asexually. **

** A2. ** ** Sexually: Human, Dog, Cat ** ** Asexually: Virus, Sponge, Strawberry **

** Q3. What is the relationship between the cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis? **

** A3. Mitosis is the stage of the cell cycle during which the cell’s nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one copy of the DNA is distributed into each daughter cell. Meiosis is the process that occurs in the formation of sex cells by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half. **



** Q4. What are the cell cycle and meiosis used for? **

** A4. The cell cycleis used for growth, development or organs, and repair of tissues and organs. Meiosis is used for producing sex cells **

** Q5. What is similar about the cell cycle and meiosis? **

** A5. The similarities between the cell cycle and meiosis are that they do the same process of splitting identical chromosomes **

** Q6. What is different about cell cycle and meiosis? **

** A6. The differences between the cell cycle and meiosis are that the cell grows to prepare for splitting while in mitosis, the nucleus grows while it splits. **