REPRODUCTION IN ANIMALS

The reproduction in which sex cells are involved.

Story of Dolly, the CloneCloning is the production of an exact copy of a cell, any other living part, or a complete organism. Cloning of an animal was successfully performed for the first time by Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh,Scotland. They successfully cloned a sheep named Dolly . Dolly …

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Binary fission is a form of asexual reproduction in which an organism divides into two, each part carrying same genetic material in the offsprings.

. Since new individuals develop from the buds in hydra, this type of asexual reproduction is called budding.

In each hydra, there may be one or more bulges. These bulges are the developing new individuals and they arecalled buds.

The transformation of the larva into an adult through not changes by complete process is called incomplete metamorphosis egg → tadpole (larva) → adult. eg Frog etc.

The transformation of the larva into an adult through drastic changes is called complete metamorphosis. the life cycle of the silkworm (egg → larva or caterpillar → pupa → adult)

The transformation of the larva into an adult through drastic changes is called metamorphosis.

Those animals which lay eggs are called oviparous animals.

Some animals give birth to young ones . The animals which give birth to young ones are called viviparous animals.