Exercise: Reproductive Strategies




BIO372 : Biological & Ecological Implications of Sex : Benefits & Trade-offs : Exercise: Reproductive Strategies

Exercise: Reproductive Strategies

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1. In your own local environment, find two organisms exhibiting different reproductive strategies (e.g., asexual and sexual, or different types of sexual strategies, e.g., monoecious, dioecious, hermaphroditism, parthenogenesis). List the organisms you picked in the assignment database. Do not duplicate organisms. Pick your organisms early.

2. For the first organism:

a) Describe its reproductive strategy.

b) What characteristic(s) of the environment where this organism lives makes its reproductive strategy adaptive? Explain.

3. For the second organism:

a) Describe its reproductive strategy.

b) What characteristic(s) of the environment where this organism lives makes its reproductive strategy adaptive? Explain.

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