organisms reproduction

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Organisms Reproduction
Reproduction, the processes by which living organisms engage in particular biological activities to generate an offspring varies from animal to another. While some procreation is sexual in type, other organisms undergo asexual reproduction. For this purpose, I will consider honey bees’ and human beings’ reproduction and sexual considerations.
While human beings’ have their reproduction story upheld on sexual aspect where the male inserts his genitalia into the female’s sexual organ during the intercourse for ejaculation of sperms and further fusion in a process called copulation, most insects such as honey bees have no definition of sex.
Honey bees do not need sex to effectuate the process of reproduction as they have a mainstream reproduction process known as parthenogenesis whereby the egg cell does not cut into several chromosomes in the process identified as mitosis, also virgin birth (Greely 30). On the flipside, human beings’ reproduction process adheres to the sexual intercourse whereby the male character inserts its penis into the females, and in the process of copulation, an ejaculation ensues, and further fertilization gets initiated during the fertility period of the female. Sex is fundamental enough for the humans and other mammals since the distinction in the genomes of the subsequent generation assists in the survival of the generation (Greely 29). Upon ejaculation, the sperm moves towards the fallopian tube where it meets the ovum, and in the combination, a zygote formation proceeds upon successful fertilization.

It is worth to note that, when the sperm meets the egg, each of them splits into equals to contribute 23 chromosomes to ensure a balancing in the genetic composition
The sexual reproduction leverages the existence of increased genetic diversity due to the variety of genes obtained from the egg and the sperm in the fertilization process than in the asexual reproduction whereby one organism just splits (Chiras 324). However, the asexual reproduction holds a higher existence ratio than the sexually reproduced genetics due to limited incipient abundance and lower population capacity of emerging species due to traditional common genetically reproduced offspring as corroborated via an experiment by Melina et al. (np).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 Chiras, Daniel D. Human Biology. Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2005.
Greely, Henry T. The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
Melián CJ, Alonso D, Allesina S, Condit RS, Etienne RS (2012) Does Sex Speed Up Evolutionary Rate and Increase Biodiversity? PLoS Comput Biol 8(3): e1002414. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002414 assessed on 20th February 2018 at 0017hrs.