Reproduction in Organisms

Life span

• It is the period between the birth and natural death of an organism.

Reproduction

• It is a biological process through which living organisms produce offspring that are similar to themselves. Reproduction is of two types: sexual and asexual.

Asexual reproduction

• It requires only one parent; thus, it does not involve the fusion of gametes.
• Offspring produced are exact copies of their parents.
• Clones are morphologically and genetically similar individuals.
• Binary fission is a mode of asexual reproduction wh…