REPRODUCTION: b.

Layering
THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE - In layering a shoot of a parent plant is bent
until it can be covered by soil. The tip of the
Two Modes of Reproduction
shoot remains above ground. New roots and
Asexual
Sexual Reproduction eventually a new plant will grow. These plants
Reproduction
can then be separated.
- A new individual is - Is a mode of
produced from a reproduction that
2. Budding
single parent. involves two parents.
It is a process wherein a new individual is
formed through formation of a bud, in which in
ASEXUAL Reproduction
time splits off from the parent and develops
 Asexual Reproduction is the formation
into anew individual.
of new individuals from a single parent.
Example: Hydra sp.
 The new individual formed is identical
to its parent.
3. Fragmentation
 Parents passes the precise copy of its In this form of asexual reproduction, the body
own genetic make up to the offspring. of the parent breaks into distinct pieces, each of
 Most common in Plants, Fungi, Bacteria which develops into a new individual.
and Microbes, and lower forms of Example: Planaria
animals. Regeneration
Types of Asexual Reproduction? In this form of asexual reproduction, if a
1. Vegetative Propagation piece of a parent becomes detached, it
2. Budding can grow and develop into a completely
3. Fragmentation new individual
4. Fission Example: Starfish
5. Spore Formation
1. Vegetative Propagation 4. Fission
• It is a common asexual method of It is a process wherein the body divides into two
reproduction in plants. (binary fission) or into many fragments
• The roots, stem & leaves of a plant are (multiple fission) and which are the exact clones
“special vegetative structures” that of the parent.
naturally give rise to a new plant. Example: Bacteria like Chlamydia and
Examples: Rickettsia
Stem: Strawberries 5. Spore Formation
Roots: Sweet Potato Common among fungi and simple plants like
Leaves: Katakataka mosses and ferns. A spore contains haploid cells
enclosed in a thick case and held together by a
Artificial Vegetative Propagation structure called sporangium. Spores are light
a. Grafting and can easily be dispersed by wind from one
- In grafting 2 plants are used to develop a new place to another. Upon maturation, the
plant with combined traits from the 2 parent sporangium burst and releases the spores. The
plants. In grafting the scion is the above ground spores germinate into new individuals as they
part of one plant. The scion is attached to land on an environment with favorable
the stock which is the rooted part of the second conditions.
plant. Example: Fungi, Mosses