Background: All living organisms must have the ability to reproduce. Living things make more organisms like themselves. Whether the organism is a rabbit, or a tree, or a bacterium, life will create more life. If a species cannot create the next generation, the species will go extinct. Reproduction is the process of making the next generation and may be a sexual or an asexual process. Sexual reproduction involves two parents and the fusion of gametes , haploid sex cells from each parent. Sexual reproduction produces offspring that are genetically unique and increases genetic variation within a species. Asexual reproduction involves only one parent. It occurs without a fusion of gametes and produces offspring that are all genetically identical to the parent.

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned more about reproduction involving two parents?
Answer: Alpha

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned less about reproduction involving two parents?
Answer: Beta

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned more about offspring that are genetically unique?
Answer: Alpha

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned less about offspring that are genetically unique?
Answer: Beta

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned less about increased genetic variation within a species?
Answer: Beta

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned more about increased genetic variation within a species?
Answer: Alpha

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned more about the fusion of gametes?
Answer: Beta

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned less about the fusion of gametes?
Answer: Alpha

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned less about offspring that are all genetically identical to the parent?
Answer: Alpha

Situation: two groups of students studied animal reproduction. Group Alpha studied sexual reproduction, while group Beta studies asexual reproduction.

Question: Which group of students learned more about offspring that are all genetically identical to the parent?
Answer: Beta