Category: Inheritance 4: Asexual/Sexual (MS)

Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.

Inheritance & Variation of Traits, Inheritance 1: Mitosis (HS), Inheritance 4: Asexual/Sexual (MS), Life Science

Rotifer Reproduction Mechanism

GwynneL.

Genetic exchange among bdelloid rotifers is more likely due to horizontal gene transfer than to meiotic sex SUMMARY: This study looked at the conclusion drawn by another study that said bdelloid rotifers used a type of meiosis similar to that found in a genus of plants called Oenothera [1]. Five hundred seventy-six rotifers of the… Continue reading Rotifer Reproduction Mechanism