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Sex in the sea
Asexual reproduction
Producing new organisms from one parent only. Offspring are an exact copy of the parent because
no new genetic material has been introduced, unlike during sexual reproduction
Broadcast spawning
Simultaneous release of egg and sperm cells. Corals for
example often reproduce using broadcast spawning.
Characteristics
The features plants or animals have to adapt to their
surrounding environment
Community
All the organisms living in the same habitat
Competition
The fight for resources that are in limited supply by plants and animals in a habitat. This can be within
the same population (the same species) or the same community (between different species)
Environment
An organism’s surroundings
Environmental Variation
Change(s) caused in an organism by environmental
factors
External fertilisation
Fertilisation which occurs in the environment
Feature
Characteristics organisms may have to surviving in their environment.
Limpets have a strong, muscular foot for example to stick to rocks on
the rocky shore.
Fertilisation
Joining of a male sex cell with a female sex cell. In animals this is a sperm cell joining with a egg cell
which produces an embryo and in plants this is a pollen cell joining with an ovule which produces a
spore
Habitat
The place where an organism lives
Internal fertilisation
Fertilisation which occurs inside the body, usually the female (but male
in the case of seahorses)
Organism
Any living plant or animal
Population
A group of the same species living within a community
Reproduction
Producing the next generation of organisms
Sexual reproduction
Producing new organisms from genetic material provided by two parents; one male and one female
Species
A group of living things that have many similar features and that can successfully interbreed