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Animal Reproduction

Animal reproduction can occur sexually, asexually, or both. [1] Sexual reproduction involves the fusion of male sperm and female eggs through processes like fertilization to form zygotes. [2] Asexual reproduction involves organisms producing offspring without fusion of gametes through methods like budding. [3] Many animals like hydra, sponges, and starfish can reproduce both sexually through processes like external fertilization and asexually through budding or dividing.

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Animal Reproduction

Animal reproduction can occur sexually, asexually, or both. [1] Sexual reproduction involves the fusion of male sperm and female eggs through processes like fertilization to form zygotes. [2] Asexual reproduction involves organisms producing offspring without fusion of gametes through methods like budding. [3] Many animals like hydra, sponges, and starfish can reproduce both sexually through processes like external fertilization and asexually through budding or dividing.

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Animal Reproduction

Opening: Hello everyone, today I will be discussing How Animal Reproduce.


But before I start my presentation, I have one trivia for you all to hear.

Octopus Mothers will die after Their Egg Hatch, typically octopus mothers
guard their eggs for several months, a period of time where they don't eat or
really move — and after their young hatch, the mothers die. Researchers have
found one deep sea species of octopus who sat guarding her eggs and barely
moving for 4.5 years — the longest documented gestation time for any animal
(and also an impressive span of time for an octopus, whose lifespan is typically
only a year or two).

It’s sad, but let’s focus on our topic first. We’re here to know what type of
reproduction octopus mothers or any animal can do, is it Sexual, Asexual or
both?

Intro: Welcome everybody to my presentation, I’m Alvin Christian from


Group 1, and I’m here to present, Animal Reproduction and How Animal
Kingdom is a great place!

(basahin hanggang sa “sperm” at pagkatapos basahin ang script)

When an egg’s nucleus unites with the sperm’s nucleus, a zygote is formed.

Presentation: “this process is known as fertilization”

And the zygote divides and forms an embryo.

2nd Intro: Asexual reproduction, it occurs when the body of the parent grows
buds…

Now let’s go onto the methods…

Animals reproduce in different ways. Some animals produce other organisms


sexually, asexually and sometimes, in a nonexclusively way, sexually and
asexually.

Hydra:

The young hydra is now free to swim on its own until it finds support and
starts to reproduce.
Animal Reproduction
(read second page of hydra until “eggs”)

Sperm cells are released in the water. Some reach the ovary of a nearby hydra,
and one sperm fertilizes an egg cell. The fertilized egg or zygote then divides
and grows into a ball of cells with a hard cover.

Sponges:

Sponges are able to reproduce asexually and sexually.

After the male sponges release sperm cells into the water, water currents carry
the sperm to female sponges where fertilization occurs. It produce an egg into
an larvae which after being released, it swims for a few days after which, these
larvae attach themselves to a solid surface and grow into new sponges.

Starfish:

Because starfish eat oysters, people used to think starfish can be killed by
chopping them into pieces and throwing the pieces back into water. This
practice, however, only helps the starfish multiply.

Mollusks:

Hermaphroditic: having both male and female reproductive organs.

Cephalopods: These exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral


body symmetry, a prominent head, and a set of arms or tentacles modified
from the primitive molluscan foot.

The male uses a specialized tentacle to transfer sperm from its cavity to the
cavity of the female, where fertilization occurs. The female lays a mass of
fertilized eggs encased in a gelatinous material. The female guards there eggs
until they hatch.

Now, let’s go back to my trivia before. Is an octopus can be considered a


mollusk based on how it reproduces? Well, yes. Because after mating, the
mother octopus releases a ton of fertilized eggs which will be guarded by the
mother octopus. It can reach multiple years before every egg has been hatched,
and it can kill the mother octopus just by guarding it. It’s called mother
sacrifice.
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Vertebrates:

The female frog releases her eggs first, and then the male frog releases sperm
over the eggs to fertilize them. The frogs leave the fertilized eggs to develop on
their own. In about two weeks, the eggs hatch into tadpole.

To prevent the eggs to drying out, the embryos within the reptile eggs are
surrounded by a watertight protective membrane called chorion. The chorion
allows oxygen to enter the egg and carbon dioxide to leave. This egg is called
Amniotic Egg.

And last but not the least, Human Fertilization.

The process of fertilization involves a sperm fusing with an ovum. The most
common sequence begins with ejaculation during copulation, follows with
ovulation, and finishes with fertilization.

There are more types of animals such as Jellyfish, Flatworms, Annelids, etc.
that I didn’t cover-up. And those are my presentation, thank you for listening,
and have a good one.

Thank you.

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