Answer:
Sexual reproduction involves two parents and the joining of male and female gametes during fertilisation. The offspring inherit a mixture of genes from both parents, so are different to each other and their parents. In asexual reproduction there is only one parent. The offspring are clones of the parent and each other.
Mitosis is a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth. Mitosis is important because the organism must:
1. replace cells that have worn out or died
2. repair tissue that is damaged
3. add cells in order to grow
4. make new kinds of cells in order to develop
Answer/Explanation:
The light-dependent reactions use light energy to make two molecules needed for the next stage of photosynthesis. the energy storage molecule ATP and the reduced electron carrier NADPH. The ATP and NADPH from the light-dependent reactions are used to make sugars in the next stage of photosynthesis, the Calvin cycle.
