BIO2242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Apomixis, Wolbachia, Parthenogenesis
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The process at which animals go off to produce offsprings. It is the core goal or focus of life. Natural selection works quite intensely on reproductive strategies. Haploid gametes fusing to form a diploid zygote (agametic) Gametes are formed but they are not fertilized (parthenogenesis) Much better at producing a lot of offsprings quickly. Genetic imprinting = tell whether genes are from mother or father. Does not involve the fusion of haploid gametes. Is energetically expensive as it requires searching for a male. Does not facilitate the rapid spread of successful genotypes. You get an outgrowth of the parent individual where it buds off and forms its own individual. Through this process, the offspring is smaller in size than the parent. Splice and dice body parts where they regenerate into complete individuals not always, but they can. Where new individuals regenerate from fragments of the parent. A form of asexual reproduction where the parent and offspring are equal in size.
