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Lesson: Chapter 14 — Continuity of Life

14.1. Reproduction 3 of 5

Question 3

Which of these occurs in sexual reproduction but not in asexual reproduction?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Meiosis. It is what makes the gametes, halving the chromosome number and shuffling what goes into each one.

Mitosis, growth and ordinary cell division happen in both. Asexual reproduction in fact depends on them — that is how a piece of the parent becomes a whole organism.

Answer the question to continue.