Reproduction - Section 5.2 Quiz

Which of the following is definitely not an example of a asexual reproduction?
1. Breeders cross different dogs to develop a new breed of dog
2. Geneticists grow a field of blight-resistant wheat using the cells of a single plant
3. Bread mould spreads on a slice of bread at the back of the fridge
4. A new raspberry shoot sprouts in the lawn near the raspberry patch
A horticulturalist takes small pieces of tissue from a prized orchid and grows them into one hundred new orchid plants. These new plants
1. will exhibit identical flowers to the original plant.
2. will be at the same stage of maturity as the identical plant.
3. will be immortal.
4. will likely mature to be twice the size of the original plant.
Some bacteria that do not have a nucleus and cannot undergo mitosis use which reproductive method?
1. Binary fission
2. Sexual reproduction
3. Budding
4. Fragmentation
Which of the following organisms cannot undergo budding?
1. Bacteria
2. Yeast
3. Hydra
4. Sponge
If an organism breaks apart as a result of injury and each fragment develops into a new individual, this is called
1. fragmentation.
2. budding.
3. spore formation.
4. binary fission.
A gardener wishes to give her clay pots a nice look, so she takes a tiny piece of moss and blends it in her blender with yogurt. Then she paints the mixture on her pots. Soon the pots are covered in thick colonies of moss. Which method of reproduction has she utilized?
1. Fragmentation
2. Spore formation
3. Budding
4. Vegetative reproduction
Which of the following is an example of vegetative reproduction?
1. A single lily bulb once planted becomes a large colony of identical lilies in three summers
2. A new starfish grows from the severed tip of a tentacle
3. Strep throat bacteria quickly colonize in your body and make you sick
4. A new baby fern shows up your back yard, just like the fern your neighbours have next door
Which of the following is not an example of grafting technology?
1. Potatoes, originally from South America, are now grown all over the world as an important source of food
2. An apple tree up the street has four different varieties of apples among its branches
3. Tender roses are grown on tough bush rose stock so they can survive northern B.C. winter
4. An ornamental B.C. spruce is grown on a miniaturizing rootstock so it grows to just 2 feet high
Of the following, which cell type could potentially be grown into a new kidney?
1. Embryonic stem cell
2. Adult stem cell
3. Skin cell
4. Embryonic nervous tissue cell
What is the purpose of therapeutic cloning?
1. To produce specialized tissues or organs for transplant
2. To destroy unwanted pest animals
3. To make cells grow larger than they normally would
4. To insert healthy genetic material into cells