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Prepared for brilliant 7th grade science students!!!!
Directions: As you read the following information and visit the following sites take
notes in the handout about asexual reproduction. All links will open up new windows.
Simply close these new windows when you are done with the required tasks.
After reading all these – COPY THE ANSWERS to the first part of your worksheet
before moving on ↓
Task 2. A cell can divide many times and thus produce many, many identical cells.
Between divisions a cell just needs time to grow in size and to make another copy of
each chromosome.
Go back to Cells Alive and again click on cell biology on the left side of the screen.
Watch the video and think about how long the cell spends in interphase vs. the time it spends
in mitosis.
Contrast the time the cell spends in interphase and the time the cell spends in mitosis:_______
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Watch the video and read over the description of the process of Mitosis.
When you have read and understood these directions click here to go to the “Cells Alive” site.
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Task 3. Various organisms reproduce asexually without using Mitosis. This section allows you
to investigate these processes.
E. Binary Fission: Bacteria and Amoeba are two examples of organisms that reproduce asexually by
binary fission
Reproduction of an Amoeba
The single-celled amoeba demonstrates a simple method of asexual reproduction; it divides in half by a process called fission,
producing two smaller daughter cells. After a period of feeding and growth, these two daughter cells will themselves divide in half.
Key Points:
Parent organism divides into two unequal parts
Buds break off and live independently
Buds grow in size and can then have their own buds
The nuclei of both the parent and the daughter are identical
1. Describe how this type of
reproduction would benefit the
yeast?
← Yeast budding
G. Vegetative Reproduction: Plants often use this to reproduce asexually.
An overview: Vegetative, or asexual, reproduction is the reproducing of plants using vegetative tissues (i.e.,
not involving sexual reproduction). This results in a plant that is genetically identical to (i.e., a clone of) the
original 'donor' plant. Vegetative reproduction occurs both naturally and artificially. It is a very common
practice in farming for reproducing plants with particularly good
characteristics, and is used extensively with some species in potato
farming and forestry, particularly in high productivity, fibre farming
systems (e.g., plantations of hybrid poplars, eucalyptus, southern
US and Caribbean pines).
You will look at the website for reproduction and describe why meiosis is important for organisms that reproduce
sexually. Click Here to learn about meiosis!
Task 5. If you have time: Complete the following below & Mitosis Videos
Go back to the “cells Alive site and find the “puzzle” section.
These links offer some amazing video of mitosis taken from the iKnow digital media website. If you would
like to, please feel free to visit this site after you have view these videos. Please turn your volume on to listen to
explanations easily.
4) Still have time?? Take the Cells Alive Cellular Biology Quiz at this site. Try to do better than Mr. Cross’ 9/10!
http://www.cellsalive.com/quiz1.htm
5) Still have more time????? Use this memory game to learn your cell organelles!! http://www.quia.com/cc/2744.html