Essays Tagged: "Asexual reproduction"

Cloning Today

A clone is a group of organisms that are genetically identical. Most clones result from asexual reproduction, a process in which a new organism develops from only one parent. The one proce ...

(4 pages) 190 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

The process of mitosis (cell replication)

parent) cell. This process (mitosis) is used for growth and repair within an organism (and also for asexual reproduction).There are five main stages to mitosis, called Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, ...

(2 pages) 81 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Organism reproduction with an emphasis on meiotic cell disivion

Organisms can reproduce by two processes, asexual and sexual reproduction. Asexual reproduction is the production of offspring by a single par ... duction. Asexual reproduction is the production of offspring by a single parent. Offspring produced asexually inherit their DNA from only one parent and are genetically identical to that parent. Repro ...

(4 pages) 60 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Test Essay on Cell Division, Anatomy & Physiology Dr. Mann.

ivision for replication. This process is used for growth and repair within an organism and also for asexual reproduction. There are five main stages to mitosis, called Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Practical Report on human sexual reproduction.

THUMAN SEXUAL REPRODUCTIONReproduction is the generation of new individuals of the same species. In asexual reproduction individuals are derived from one parent and no special reproductive structures ...

(3 pages) 78 1 4.1 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Cloning. Is cloning right?

e Concise Columbia Encyclopedia as "a group of organisms descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction." (Cohen 10) Some people believe that possibly humans could be cloned. Many app ...

(6 pages) 273 3 4.6 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Mitosis.

i-cellular organisms such as sea stars, sea anemones, fungi, and certain plants rely on mitosis for asexual reproduction at particular stages in their life cycles, and mitosis is the sole method of re ...

(4 pages) 60 0 3.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Should Cloning be Ban?

Should Cloning be Ban?The word "cloning" comes from the Greek and means "asexual reproduction". Two types of human cloning need to be differentiated: therapeutic cloning and ...

(2 pages) 55 2 3.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Cloning

fishes is cut up into its five arms, each armwill regenerate a complete individual. Another type of asexual reproductionfound in all animals, human beings included, is the formation of identicaltwins, ...

(4 pages) 43 0 3.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Cholera and its Implications for the Modern World

ife cycle of the cholera bacterium is simple; Vibrio cholerareproduces by binary fission, a form of asexual reproduction. The genus, Vibrio, aretypically marine organisms that are found on the surface ...

(6 pages) 40 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Biology exam notes: Units on reproduction in plants and animals (sexual & assexual), mitosis & meiosis, growth and cell division

BIOLOGY TERM 3ReproductionAsexual reproduction·leads to the production of offspring that are very like their parents an ... ent body) followed by regeneration (the growth of detached part into a new individual) is a form of asexual reproduction that occurs in some multicellular organisms.·A many celled structure tha ... al daughter cells·Occurs in the human body during growth or replacement of dead cells·Asexual reproduction often involves the simple process of mitoses.INTERPHASE·The DNA is copie ...

(10 pages) 98 1 3.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Difference between asexual and sexual

asexual reproduction is not a "sexual" situation: thenew organism is generated thanks to a somatic ( ...

(1 pages) 41 0 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The Ethical side to Embryonic Stem Cell Research

licates of molecules, DNA, cells, tissue and even entire organisms."Human cloning is the process of asexual reproduction of a human during anytime in the patient's life, and if tissue remains, for man ...

(13 pages) 234 0 2.3 Sep/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology

Carrot Regeneration.

tory is an experiment designed to explore regeneration and the totipotency of carrot tissue through asexual reproduction. Tissue culture is used as a method for commercial and research applications th ...

(1 pages) 3673 0 3.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Cellular Reproduction.

s into offspring or cells that will later develop into offspring. The reproductive process, whether asexual or sexual always involves an exchange in hereditary material from the parents so that the ne ... e new organism may also be able to reproduce. Reproductive processes can be categorized into either asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction.Asexual reproduction is any form of reproduction that do ...

(2 pages) 39 1 3.6 Jan/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Using Technology to Clone

me light on the subject. Cloning is to create a genetic duplicate of an individual organism through asexual reproduction, as by stimulating a single cell? (Webster's 211). "Parthenogenesis is reproduc ...

(5 pages) 17 0 3.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Cloning and its benefits

ishes is cut up into its five arms, each arm will regenerate a complete individual. Another type of asexual reproductionfound in all animals, human beings included, is the formation of identical twins ...

(4 pages) 43 1 5.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

How to make a human

a number of cells.9.The activity of an organism depends on the total activity of independent cells.Asexual reproductionIn asexual reproduction, an individual can reproduce without involvement with an ... dividual of that species. The division of a bacterial cell into two daughter cells is an example of asexual reproduction. Asexual reproduction is not, however, limited to single-celled organisms. Most ...

(3 pages) 16 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Fluctuations in Lifespan and Reproduction Rates of "Daphnia" Based on Different Environmental and Nutritional Conditions

Daphnia.Daphnia reproduce sexually and parthenogenetically (Sterner, 1998). Parthenogenesis is the asexual reproduction of a species from females only. The females reproduce more females from their u ... the conditions for such reproduction is the best (Sterner, 1998). The peak season of Daphnia’s asexual/ parthenogenetical reproduction starts from mid spring to late summer (Sterner, 1998). The s ...

(6 pages) 2800 0 0.0 Jul/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology

The Clone Technology

s of creating an identical copy of an original, different from the natural propagate, cloning is an asexual reproduction.The clone history could be traced back to 400 million years BC, the plants have ...

(5 pages) 44 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology