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What is the significance of fertilization?

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Significance of fertilisation
(i) It results in fusion of male and female gametes, leading to formation of zygote.
(ii) It mixes characters of two parents
(iii) Diploid (2n) chromosome number of species is restored.
(iv) It stimulates the fertilised egg (zygote) to undergo cleavage_
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BETTER CHOICE PUBLICATION-REPRODUCTION IN ORGANISMS-SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (2 MARKS)
  1. What is the significance of fertilization?

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  2. Write four points regarding the importance of vegetative propagation.

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  3. Give the significance of asexual reproduction.

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  4. Why is reductional division or meiosis is essential in organisms?

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  5. Both Meiosis and Fertilization are essential to maintain chromosome nu...

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  6. Write the characteristics of sexualreproduction.

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  7. Give significance of vegetative propagation.

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  8. How does progeny formed from asexual reproduction differ from those fo...

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  9. Write the differences between zoospore and a zygospore

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  10. Distinguish between Syngamy and Fertilisation.

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  11. Differentiate : Oviparous and viviparous animals.

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  12. How eggs of oviparous animals are protected?'

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  13. Fertilization is not an obligatory event for fruit production in certa...

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  14. What do the following parts of a flower develop after fertilisation? O...

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  15. List the changes observed in an angiosperm flower subsequent to pollin...

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  16. The number of taxa exhibiting asexual reproduction is drastically redu...

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  17. In a developing embryo, analyse the consequences if cell divisions are...

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  18. In haploid organisms that undergo sexual reproduction, name the stage ...

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