Question

How Do Humans Reproduce Asexually?

Answer 1

Hint: Asexual reproduction is reproduction, which does not involve fusion of the gametes. The offspring born obtain the full set of genes from the parent. They are the exact copy or the clone of the parent. It occurs in organisms like hydra, amoeba.

Complete answer:
As human beings are complex organisms, they generally reproduce through sexual reproduction. The offspring acquires half a set of chromosomes from the father and the other half set from its mother. Reproduction involves the fusion of the two gametes followed by fertilisation and implantation in the female reproductive system. The offspring, therefore, inherit the characters of both the parents.

Some times the humans reproduce asexually as well. It takes place without fertilisation of the gametes. In the case of monozygotic twins. In this the fertilisation of the egg takes place sexually and the embryo is formed but the embryo splits into two by the method of asexual division.

Another means of asexual reproduction in humans involves the process which is artificially carried out in case of invitro mode of reproduction. In this few part of the sperm, egg is fused which undergoes development and maturation and forms the new foetus.

Note: Another type of reproduction which does not involves male sex cells is called parthenogenesis. This kind of reproduction is common in ants, wasps, fishes. In this the embryo is formed from the female gametes without any genetic contribution of the male gametes. This eventually leads to formation of adult. As the egg cells are produced, it does not fall under asexual reproduction.