Book contents
- Understanding Reproduction
- Series page
- Understanding Reproduction
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Individuals and Reproduction
- 2 Reproduction in the Life Cycle
- 3 Reproduction Without Sex
- 4 Reproduction with Sex
- 5 Two-Parent Sexual Reproduction
- 6 One-Parent (or Nearly so) Sexual Reproduction
- 7 Development of Sexual Traits
- 8 Widening the View: Reproductive Strategies
- Concluding Remarks: Difficult Boundaries
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure Credits
- Index
4 - Reproduction with Sex
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
- Understanding Reproduction
- Series page
- Understanding Reproduction
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Individuals and Reproduction
- 2 Reproduction in the Life Cycle
- 3 Reproduction Without Sex
- 4 Reproduction with Sex
- 5 Two-Parent Sexual Reproduction
- 6 One-Parent (or Nearly so) Sexual Reproduction
- 7 Development of Sexual Traits
- 8 Widening the View: Reproductive Strategies
- Concluding Remarks: Difficult Boundaries
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure Credits
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 1 we defined sexual reproduction as a form of reproduction that generates new individuals carrying a genome obtained by the association and/or the reassortment of genetic material from more than one source. In the most familiar form of sexual reproduction, the new genome is formed by the union of (partial) copies of the genomes of two parents through the fusion of two special cells produced for that purpose, the gametes, into a single cell, the zygote. This is the way most multicellular eukaryotes, ourselves included, reproduce sexually.
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- Understanding Reproduction , pp. 64 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023