IT TAKES TWO… DOESN’T IT?

All species are driven to create more of their own kind… but there’s no such thing as Mommy & Daddy Amoeba. Students learned how different organisms reproduce. Single-celled organisms can divide into two, some simple animals can grow from a bump on the single parent’s body, and many plants can create clones of themselves. Contrast this asexual reproduction with sexual reproduction: it takes a lot less time, but there is no genetic variation. Mixing genes up makes things a lot more interesting – otherwise we would all be absolutely identical to Adam – and there wouldn’t even be an Eve!

Miss Kleinschuster

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Topics: 6Sixth Grade
Date: Thursday, June 24th, 2010 9:31 am