Sexual Reproduction
Sexual Reproduction: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Sexual Reproduction, Events in Sexual Reproduction, External Fertilisation & Internal Fertilisation etc.
Important Questions on Sexual Reproduction
The vegetative phase is also observed in animals.

Vegetative phase is a part of asexual reproduction.

The period of growth after the reproductive phase in plants is termed the vegetative phase.

The period of growth or the period before the reproductive phase in plants is termed as a vegetative phase.

What is the meaning of vegetative phase?


_____ takes place during senescence.

Senescence is the phase of _____.

Senescence is a phase of growth and ageing.

The senescent phase is the period after the reproductive phase when a cell loses its ability to reproduce.

Fill in the blank with the correct answer from the bracket.
The type of fertilization that takes place in birds is called _____. (external fertilization, internal fertilization)

The frogs show internal fertilization.


Earthworms are hermaphrodite animals.

A male honey bee has _____ chromosomes whereas its female has 32 chromosomes.

In bee society, all the members are diploid except drones.

The mode of sexual reproduction in bacteria is by conjugation.

ll organisms have to pass through a particular phase before they can reproduce sexually. What do we call this phase?

Viviparous animals give better protection to their offspring.

Name the kind of reproduction in the bees in which drones are produced, whether it is parthenogenesis or sexual reproduction?
