Question

Which of these is a characteristic of sexual reproduction?

Answer 1

Answer:

sexual reproduction includes the formation of male and female sex cells called gametes and their fusion...

Answer 2

The fusion of male and female gametes is the characteristic feature of sexual reproduction.

Definition of Sexual reproduction.

A type of reproduction where there are gametes involved and the progeny is the resultant of that gametic fusion is called sexual reproduction.

• In sexual reproduction, the progeny born is not like its parents. This is because there is a fusion of gametes
• The gametes are obtained from the meiotic division in the male and female parents. the gametes are haploid in nature that is they only contain a half set of the chromosome.
• Sexual reproduction enhances the survival rate of an organism as it introduces new characters into an organism. The new characters are introduced by the recombination process in meiosis during gametogenesis.

Hence, sexual reproduction is a more advanced type of reproductive mechanism seen in the higher organism, where the genetic makeup of a progeny is composed of both parental characters.