Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Reproduction

Going over the whole period of time that we went over reproduction, i learned A LOT that i defiantly didn't know before. Reproduction is the biological process in which new life are produced from their parents. Reproduction is a feature known of all life with both animals and humans. The two main types of reproduction methods are grouped into two different types. Asexual and Sexual. Asexual reproduction is the process by which an organism makes a genetically very similar, or identical copy of itself without any genetic material from another person. Sexual reproduction is the biological progress in which organisms make descendants that have a combination of genetic material from two different members of the same species. Most animals and plants reproduce sexually. By reproducing sexually, you have different sets of genes for every trait, better known as an allele. Offspring get one allele for each trait from each one of the parents, which makes sure that the offspring will have a combination of the parents genes. A diploid is having two copies of every gene within one organism.
      In class we watched a movie type thing showing us a couple and their process of having a baby. It was very informing to me and i thought it was really cool i got to learn about the things i did. It usually happens to every single one of us, so it's nice to learn all these things so you can know what's happening when i does happen to you. Child birth can be a very rough thing to go through, but hearing from other people, it is also one of the most amazing things that an happen to you. Genetics have a lot to do with child birth too, because when the the sperm and egg get together and make the baby, the baby 23 of them moms and 23 of the dads chromosomes which makes up the DNA of the baby. It's actually kind of hard remembering the video and explaining it but i did learn a lot from it. 

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