Lesson 3.

Asexual Reproduction in
Animals
 understand the general
Objectives 1 mechanisms of asexual
reproduction in animals;
At the end and
of the
lesson, you identify the different
should be 2 forms of asexual
able to: reproduction in animals.
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Asexual Reproduction
• Asexual reproduction in animals
is a type of reproduction that
does not need two parents to
produce an offspring.

• The offspring is the exact copy of

the parent animal since they are
genetically identical.
A swarm of bees
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Four Types of Asexual Reproduction

• Fission
• Natural
• Artificial

• Fragmentation

• Budding
Sea anemone reproduces
• Parthenogenesis asexually.
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Four Types of Asexual Reproduction

1. Fission

• Fission happens when two

individuals form as the parent
divides in half.

• Types: Binary and Multiple

• Examples: sea anemone, amoeba, Salmonella bacterium

Paramecium, and Euglena undergoing fission
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Two Types of Fission

a. Binary Fission

• It involves two individuals

formed from a single parent.

• The nucleus first divides into

two followed by cytokinesis,
then it separates into two
daughter cells.
The steps of binary fission
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Binary Fission

The steps of binary fission

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Two Types of Fission

b. Multiple Fission

• It results into several offspring that are formed from a

single parent. Examples: amoeba and Paramecium

Multiple fission in amoeba

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Four Types of Asexual Reproduction

2. Fragmentation

• It involves the breaking of body

parts into fragments, followed by
regeneration and regrowth of lost
parts.

• Examples: annelid worms,

turbellarians, sea stars, planaria Fragmentation in planaria
and poriferans
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Four Types of Asexual Reproduction

3. Budding

• It happens when an outgrowth,

called a bud, grows and develops
from the parent animal.

• Examples: corals, hydra, and

yeast
Budding in hydra
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Four Types of Asexual Reproduction

4. Parthenogenesis

• It is the reproduction of offspring without fertilization.

The unfertilized egg develops into an adult animal.

• The resulting offspring can either be haploid or diploid.

• Examples: bees, mites, aphids, and Komodo dragon

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Four Types of Asexual Reproduction

Examples of parthenogenetic animals

aphids bees Komodo dragon

Key Points

Asexual reproduction in animals is a type of

1 reproduction that does not need two parents to produce
an offspring.

Asexual reproduction in animals has four types:

● Fission involves division of cells producing daughter cells.
● Fragmentation is the breaking of body parts followed by
2 regeneration.
● Budding involves the development of an outgrowth.
● Parthenogenesis is reproduction without fertilization.
 Check Your Understanding

Write the word true if the given statement is correct and

false if otherwise.
1. Yeasts exhibit fragmentation.
2. Budding create two individuals with different sizes.
3. Budding happens a body part of the parent organism breaks
and grows into a new individual.
4. Parthenogenesis requires another individual that will
fertilize the egg to produce an offspring.
5. Hydra and corals reproduce when an outgrowth develops
from their bodies and separates when already matured.
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6. Fragmentation is always followed by regeneration and

regrowth when favorable conditions are met.
7. Asexual reproduction ensures that the genetic material of
the offspring is the same as the parent organism.
8. Binary fission happens when several daughter cells are
produced when the parent cell divides.
9. Parthenogenesis is the process where two individuals form
as the parent divides in half.
10. Offspring produced from parthenogenesis can only be
haploid cells.
Challenge Yourself

Why do you think

animals develop
asexual form of
reproduction?
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