Name: Reproduction: An Introduction
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 2 min 56 s
Description: Reproduction is the production of offspring. There are two main forms: sexual and asexual reproduction. know more about it in this video.

Question

Explain the different kinds of syngamy in living organisms.

Accepted Answer

Sexual reproduction requires the involvement of two parents and the formation of gametes. Syngamy in sexual reproduction is the process of fusion of haploid male gamete with the haploid female gamete to form a diploid zygote which eventually develops in the new organism. This process is also known as fertilisation. Different kinds of syngamy a prevalent amongst living organisms.

Autogamy- The male and female gametes are produced by the same cell or same organism and put chemical fuse together to form a zygote.

Exogamy- The male and female gametes are produced by different parents, and they fuse to form zygote. So it is biparental.

Hologamy- Lower organism sometimes the entire mature organism do not form gametes but they themselves behave as gametes and fusion of such mature individual is known as hologamy.

Paedogamy- It is the sexual union of young individuals produced immediately after the division of adult parent cell by mitosis.

Merogamy- Diffusion of small size and morphologically different gametes take place.

Isogamy - The fusion of morphological and physiological identical gametes is called isogamy.

Anisogamy-The fusion of dissimilar gametes is called and anisogamy.

Explain the different kinds of syngamy in living organisms.

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