Before You Read What kinds of organisms reproduce by making exact copies of the parent organism Give three or four examples on the lines below Create a Quiz After you have read this section create a five question quiz based on what you have learned After you have written the questions be sure to answer them Then share them with your classmates Type of asexual reproduction binary fission budding fragmentation spore formation egetative reproduction What is asexual reproduction Asexual reproduction is the formation of a new individual that has the same genetic information as its parent The individual is a clone or an exact copy of its parent Asexual reproduction occurs in one celled organisms such as bacteria and in multicellular organisms such as plants What types of asexual reproduction are there There are several types of asexual reproduction as shown in the table below Definition the splitting of a single parent cell into two equal parts that have the same coples of genetic material a group of rapidly dividing cells develops on an organism and breaks away to become a new organism 5 2 Summary a small piece of an organism breaks away from it and develops into a new individual parent organism produces spores single cells that can develop into new individuals by repeated mitosis special cells usually in the stems and roots of plants divide repeatedly to form structures that develop into a plant that is identical to the parent Examples of organisms that use this form of reproduction some kinds of bacteria amoeba some simple multicellular organisms such as hydras and sponges one celled yeasts some plants such as mosses and liverworts some animals such as some sea stars and corals common in fungi some plants and algae very common in most kinds of plants