what are the characteristics of reproduction?
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Mitosis and Meiosis. Passing on genes of gamets and somatic cells. Evolution is a characteristic.
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Reproduction is usually sexual. Males are usually smaller than females (often very much smaller) and often have a characteristically bent tail for holding the female for copulation. During copulation, one or more chitinized spicules move out of the cloaca and are inserted into genital pore of the female. Amoeboid sperm crawl along the spicule into the female worm.\n\nEggs may be embryonated or unembryonated when passed by the female, meaning that their fertilized eggs may not yet be developed. In free-living roundworms, the eggs hatch into larva, which eventually grow into adults; in parasitic roundworms, the life cycle is often much more complicated.
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This article states that there are 15 characteristics of living systems.  These are: 1. LEVELS OF SCALE, 2. STRONG CENTERS, 3. BOUNDARIES, 4. ALTERNATING REPETITION, 5. POSITIVE SPACE, 6. GOOD SHAPE, 7. LOCAL SYMMETRIES, 8. DEEP INTERLOCK AND AMBIGUITY, 9. CONTRAST, 10. GRADIENTS, II. ROUGHNESS, 12. ECHOES, 13. THE VOID, 14. SIMPLICITY AND INNER CALM, 15. NON-SEPARATENESS.\n\nSee the article for full details.
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Contrast:\n- Asexual reproduction is done with only one individual or cell in the process (called mitosis) and usually involves splitting or grafting of the original organism.\n- Sexual reproduction occurs when one cell fertilizes another (sperm and egg are the most common terms for it) and it usually results in a more stable gene pool because more chromosome combinations are possible.\n\nCompare:\n- They both involve reproduction at the cellular level.\n- They both involve some manner of genetics (either splitting or joining)\n- They both produce offspring.
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All living things have 7 characteristics. They form the acronym GRIMNER.\n1) Growth - permanent increase in size\n2) Reproduction - ability to produce offspring\n3) Irritability - the ability to detect and respond to stimuli (changes\n         in the environment)\n4) Movement - ability to change the position of the whole or part\n         of the body\n5) Nutrition\n6) Excretion - rmoval of metabolic waste\n7) Respiration - ability to release energy from food
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The advantage is seen in the fishes who could slightly breathe through their skin.  When the pond dries up millions of times over hundreds of millions of years the descendants with better breathing could eventually stay ashore and ponder these questions.  The advantage of asexual reproduction is that you don't have to be cute.
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Genetics;\n\nThe male mind is programmed to reproduce.  The average male thinks about sex every 15 seconds.
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Asexual reproduction is the reproduction of a single individual without the use of sex.  Sex is defined as the halving of the chromosome number of an individual and its subsequent reconstitution at the fusion of the gametes (egg and sperm).  \nBasically asexual reproduction creates the clone of an individual as one individual copies its own genome and then splits into two individuals.\n\nBacteria and Archaeans (so all prokaryotes) reproduce only by asexual reproduction.  Also sponges have the ability to produce a full individual if one individual is broken into two pieces, which is called regeneration.  Also sea stars, sea anenomes, flatworms (etc.) are able to reproduce asexually by regeneration.
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living things have these characteristics:\n\n1. irritability (ability to respond to stimuli)\n2. life cycle\n3. growth and development\n4. motion (for animals)\n5. reproduction\n\nnon- living things dont have these charateristics...
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The main thing that makes bunny breeding different is that the females are induced ovulators.  This means they don't come into heat; the act of mating causes them to produce eggs.  A female can get pregnant again within hours after giving birth.\n\nMoreover, their gestation period is short, their litters are large, and they become sexually mature quickly.  Result:  Lots and lots of rabbits!\n\nIn theory, a single female rabbit could have up to 95 billion descendants during her lifetime!\n\nThus, it's not only that they can have sex more often, but also that produce more offspring.
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12\nSpermiogenesis: a process of metamorphosis from a round cell with typical organelles to a highly specialized, elongated cell well adapted for traversing the male and female reproductive tracts and achieving fertilization of an egg.
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your answer should be --- mamalian or human reproduction. depends on if this is a question for a subject being studied or not, and what subject it is.\n\nbecause the zygote is the cell that is formed by the fusion of two haploid gametes, one from a male and one form a female.\n\nafter the first diploid cell is created, it is no longer reproduction, but embryonic development, since there are more than one cell once they start dividing, and they all are diploid.\n\nin most other reproductive processes, the gametes contain more than one set of chromosomes, making the gametes polyploid rather than haploid, therefore, the zygote isn't diploid.
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This is Darwin's Theory of Evolution known as natural selection:\n\n1. Species have great fertility. They make more offspring than can grow to adulthood. \n\n2. Populations remain roughly the same size, with modest fluctuations. \n\n3. Food resources are limited, but are relatively constant most of the time. From these three observations it may be inferred that in such an environment there will be a struggle for survival among individuals. \n\n4. In sexually reproducing species, generally no two individuals are identical. Variation is rampant. \n\n5. Much of this variation is heritable.
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>Reproduction occurs both sexually and by asexual budding. Sexual reproduction is by means of eggs and sperm, which are produced in the mesentaries and shed into the water. Fertilization results in a free-swimming larva, which attaches to a surface and secretes a skeleton, becoming (in colonial forms) the parent of a new colony.
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You can sometimes tell by vaginal discharge and body temperature.  Type in "natural fertility" in a search engine and you will get your answers.
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Asexual reproduction: only one parent is involved, and the offspring have the same DNA, as the parents. Basically, the offspring are exactly like the parents.
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The word you are looking for is 'parthenogenesis', which is defined as the development of an egg into an embryo without the participation of a sperm.\n\nIn fact, many invertebrates, and even some vertebrates do this.