Asexual and sexual reproduction in plant and animal life cycles

In this topic

• The life cycle and the change of ploidy
• The three places meiosis can sit
• Alternation of generations in plants: the rise of the sporophyte
• Animal life cycles, and why two kinds of reproduction

Key terms

• Life cycle
• Haploid (n)
• Diploid (2n)
• Meiosis
• Fertilisation
• Spore
• Gametophyte
• Sporophyte
• Prothallus
• Alternation of generations
• Metagenesis
• Heterogony

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