Asexual Reproduction
Asexual Reproduction:- There are no specialised gametes. There is no fertilisation -Cells in one part of the body divide by mitosis to form a structure that breaks away from the parent body and grows into a new organism. Eg Hydra undergoes asexual reproduction by buddying. Asexual Reproduction produces genetically identical offspring. - because all the cells of the new individual are produced by mitosis from just one cell in the body of the adult. -when cells divide by mitosis, they form the exactly same cells are originally and these are called clones. When is asexual reproduction useful? - when the habitat/ environment for an organism is suited/stable, it will reproduce genetically identical offspring who are also going to be suited to this environment.