Question

2. What is a clone? Why do off-springs formed by asexual reproduction

exhibit remarkable similarity?

3. Why does bread mould grow profusely on a moist slice of bread rather

than on a dry slice of bread?

4. Write two points of differences between asexual and sexual types of

reproduction. Describe why variations are observed in the off-springs

formed by sexual reproduction.

5. Colonies of yeast fail to multiply in water, but multiply in sugar solution.

Give one reason for this.

6. Why budding, fragmentation and regeneration all are considered as

asexual types of reproduction? With neat diagrams explain the process

of regeneration in planaria.

7. Name two simple organisms having the ability of regeneration.

8. Name the causative agent of the disease’Kala-azar’ and its mode of

sexual reproduction.

9. Explain budding in Hydra with the help of labeled diagram only.

10. Explain the process of regeneration in planaria. How is this precess

different from reproduction?​

Answer 1

Answer:

2. Clone is an exact copy of a plant r animal that is produced from one of its cells by scientific methods.