Question

Complete the passage to describe sexual reproduction.

Sexual reproduction involves sex cells. The female reproductive cell is a(an)
and the male reproductive cell is a(an)
. The male and female sex cells combine in a process called fertilization to form a
that eventually grows and develops into an offspring.

Answer 1

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Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete (such as a sperm or egg cell) with a single set of chromosomes (haploid) combines with another to produce an organism composed of cells with two sets of chromosomes (diploid).[1] Sexual reproduction is the most common life cycle in multicellular eukaryotes, such as animals, fungi and plants. Sexual reproduction does not occur in prokaryotes (organisms without cell nuclei), but they have processes with similar effects such as bacterial conjugation, transformation and transduction, which may have been precursors to sexual reproduction in early eukaryotes.