Today, we were lucky enough to have scientist, Elizabeth Vang, to explain the process of reproduction since Suki is expecting a baby! She explained the process extremely well.
Many students showed up and were extremely impressed by Miss Vang's lecture. Students surprisingly all came prepared with notebooks and pencils, ready to learn. Here were some key information that Miss Vang discussed
- Sexual reproduction is a process that creates a new organism by combining the genetic material of two organisms, and occurs in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
- A key similarity between bacterial sex and eukaryotic sex is that DNA originating from two different individuals join up so that homologous sequences are aligned with each other.
- There are two main process of sexual reproduction in eukaryotes: meiosis, involving the splitting of the number of chromosomes, and fertilization, involving fusion of two gametes and the restoration of the original number of chromosomes.
- During meiosis, the chromosomes of each pair usually cross over the achieve a homologous recombination.
- Sexual reproduction is the primary method of reproduction for the vast majority of macroscopic organisms, including almost all animal and plants.
An adult doe usually has twins in the spring. In areas where there is sufficient food, shelter and water and an absence of predation (human or otherwise), deer tend to have high reproductive potential and populations can increase quickly. In these conditions, a deer can live up to eight - even twelve - years.
