An animal can be either Sexual or Asexual each type has it's own distinct characteristics as listed below
Sexual reproducing creatures
- They have a sex/gender, so can be identified as either male or female.
- They produce cells called 'Gametes', the sperm cell in males, and the egg cell in females
- To produce these Gametes, a type of cell division called Meiosis is used, which is A type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.
- Fertilisation occurs, where opposite Gametes fuse together
- There is a broad variation in the individuals (i.e. humans are very different from each other)
- There are no Sexes or Genders
- There are no Gametes
- Asexual reproduction involves Mitosis or Binary Fission (Note: Mitosis is used in Sexual reproducing creatures, but not for reproduction)
- No fertilisation because there are no Gametes
- There is little variation between individuals and this is due to mutations all others are "identical" also known as "clones"
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