Saturday,26th July 2008 UTC

On this page about Sexual reproduction:

• Tags
• Encyclopedia extract
• Translations
• Search Results

Tags

• Biological reproduction (38)
• Developmental biology (91)
• Sexuality (13)

Encyclopedia: Sexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that results in increasing genetic diversity of the offspring. It is characterized by two processes: meiosis, involving the halving of the number of chromosomes; and fertilization, involving the fusion of two gametes and the restoration of the original number of chromosomes. During meiosis, the chromosomes of each pair usually cross over to achieve genetic recombination.

Translations

How to say "Sexual reproduction" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	有性生殖
	(Japanese)	有性生殖
	(German)	Geschlechtliche Fortpflanzung
	(Spanish)	Reproducción sexual
	(French)	Reproduction (biologie)

Search results

Deuteromycota

The Deuteromycota are a form division, including those fungi in which sexual reproduction is... diagnosis. Because sexual reproduction is the basis for classification of fungi, it is often difficult to place these fungi in their appropriate group (because they lack sexual reproduction). The use of DNA...

→  read in the encylopedia

Genetic operator

; sexual reproduction (crossover, or recombination); and mutation...

→  read in the encylopedia

Mesoproterozoic

sexual reproduction...

→  read in the encylopedia

Conjugate

...

→  read in the encylopedia

Bdelloid

). Bdelloids have been of interest to those interest in the evolutionary role of sexual reproduction...

→  read in the encylopedia

Desmid

flagella. Sexual reproduction occurs through a process of conjugation, also found among the...

→  read in the encylopedia

Offsets

asexual reproduction. If you want to create new cultivars, you propagate with seeds and mix the parents. This is a sexual reproduction and creates new combinations. In nature wind, insects, bats, birds and...

→  read in the encylopedia

Perfect

in the division Deuteromycota cannot undergo any form of sexual reproduction. All nonflowering seed... tense. In botany and mycology, an organism is considered perfect if it is capable of sexual reproduction. If it isn't, it is imperfect . The term perfect has nothing to do with the quality of an...

→  read in the encylopedia

Pregnancy in science fiction

Numerous science fiction, utopian and dystopian novels revolve around sexual reproduction...: Glory Season (1994) (mixture of parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction in a mainly female society... children) Naomi Mitchison: Solution Three (1975) (uptopia via mandatory homosexuality, reproduction...

→  read in the encylopedia

Muller's ratchet

mutation. Because there is no possibility for genetic mixing, e.g. through sexual reproduction, the..., sexual reproduction allows most plants and animals to create offspring with good copies of two genes via... deleterious mutation coupled with an advantageous one can be undone in organisms with sexual reproduction...

→  read in the encylopedia