ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN

ANIMALS AND PLANT

 Learning Outcomes
At the end of this session, you should be able to:

▪ Explain some examples of asexual reproduction in

animal and plant
 ASEXUAL
REPRODUCTION IN
ANIMAL

Example:

▪ Binary fission

▪ Budding

▪ Regeneration

▪ Parthenogenesis
 Binary fission
Ex: Amoeba

an individual organism divides and then each part

becomes a separate but identical organism
 Budding
Ex: Cnidarians
a part of the
parent's body
becomes
separated from the
rest and
differentiates into a
new individual
Budding
Ex: Yeast
Regeneration
Ex: Planarian
 Parthenogenesis
Ex: Honeybee
If no sperm are
released, the eggs
develop into haploid
drones, which are
males
(parthenogenesis)

In honeybees, for If sperm are allowed to

example, a queen fertilize the eggs, the
bee mates only fertilized eggs develop
once and stores into diploid worker
bees, which are female.
the sperm. She
then can control
the release of the When fertilized eggs
are exposed to the
sperm.
appropriate hormone,
they will develop into
queens.
Drone Worker

Queen
 ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION
IN PLANT

Example:
▪ Stolon or runner ▪ Corm
▪ Rhizomes ▪ Plantlets
▪ Tubers ▪ Suckers
▪ Bulb
 STOLON
Horizontal aboveground stem
with long internodes

Strawberry
 RHIZOME
Horizontal underground
stem

Ginger
 TUBER
Fleshy underground stem
enlarged for food storage

Potato
 BULB
Modified underground bud with
fleshy storage leaves attached to
short stem

Onion
 CORM
Short erect underground stem
covered by papery scales

Taro
 SUCKERS
Develop from adventitious buds developed from
roots→ Produce additional roots → May give rise
to new plants

Raspberry
 PLANTLETS
Small plants arise from notches
along the leaves

Kalanchoe daigremontiana