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Question Answer the following questions:
(a) What is budding? Define it.
(b) Is it asexual or sexual mode of reproduction?
(c) Mention one example of a plant and one of an animal that reproduce by budding.
(d) Draw and label the diagram of an animal showing the process of budding.
(e) Write the specific locomotory structures of the animal drawn by you in part (d) above.
(a) Budding is a form of asexual reproduction in which a protuberance of cell grows from the parent body to form an independent individual.
(b) Budding is an asexual mode of reproduction.
(c) Budding is seen in Hydra and yeast.
(d) Below labelled diagram shown the process of budding in Hydra:
(e) The specific locomotory structures of Hydra, which reproduces by budding, are its tentacles.