Reproduction
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species."--The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci "With the advent of the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction, photography, simultaneously with the rise of socialism, art sensed the approaching crisis which has become evident a century later."--"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935) by Walter Benjamin |
Illustration: Fashionable Contrasts (1792) by James Gillray.
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Reproduction is the biological process by which new "offspring" individual organisms are produced from their "parents". Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction. The known methods of reproduction are broadly grouped into two main types: sexual and asexual.
In asexual reproduction, an individual can reproduce without involvement with another individual of that species. The division of a bacterial cell into two daughter cells is an example of asexual reproduction. Asexual reproduction is not, however, limited to single-celled organisms. Most plants have the ability to reproduce asexually.
Sexual reproduction typically requires the involvement of two individuals or gametes, one each from opposite type of sex.'
See also
- Allogamy
- Breeding season
- Mating system
- Mechanical reproduction
- Plant reproduction
- Reproducibility
- Reproductive system
- Reprography
- Masting
