What Is Asexual Reproduction

Asexual Reproduction

1. Asexual Reproduction: 

asexual reproduction, only one In individual is used as parent. • The individual does not produce gametes by meiosis • Due to the absence of meiosis, the ploidy (number of chromosomes) remains unchanged through out the reproductive process.

• Since, there is no gamete formation, fertilization is also absent.

The newly formed individual (offspring) is the exact carbon copy of its parent. Therefore, it can simply be called as a clone.

Asexual reproduction is found only in lower and primitive animals such as protozoans, sponges and coelenterates etc.