{"id":2303,"date":"2012-07-10T20:56:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/SchoolTutoring.com\/help\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:33:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:33:42","slug":"reproduction-in-plants-and-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/reproduction-in-plants-and-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Reproduction in Plants and Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

All living things grow, get old and then die.\u00a0 All living things produce young ones like themselves so that life on Earth can continue.\u00a0 Animals reproduce in different ways.\u00a0 A lion or a human gives live birth. Birds and frogs lay eggs from which babies hatch.<\/em><\/p>\n

Plants:<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

A plants life cycle starts with a seed. When it receives the right amount of sunlight, water, and air, it will begin to grow. The Seed sprouts, then grows into roots, a stem, then develops leaves, flowers and more seeds. The sprouted seed which grows down into the soil is called root. The part which grows to the surface of the soil is the stem. Later, leaves begin to form from the stem, and that seed is then called a ‘seedling’ as it can produce and prepare food. Slowly and steadily it develops as a plant, sheds seeds, and the cycle continues.<\/p>\n

Animals:<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Animals that give birth to babies:<\/em><\/strong>
\nAnimals such as humans, lions, tigers, cows or bears give live birth.
\nThe babies are formed inside the body of the mother.\u00a0 They stay inside for several weeks and are then born.\u00a0 When the babies are born they are weak and helpless.\u00a0 Their mothers care for them and protect them till they learn to look after themselves.\u00a0 They feed their babies with their own milk.\u00a0 Such animals are called mammals.<\/p>\n

Animals that lay eggs:<\/em> <\/strong>
\nBirds make nests to lay eggs.\u00a0 The female bird lays the eggs.
\nThink of the egg of a hen.\u00a0 There is a hard outer shell that protects the egg.\u00a0 If you carefully break the shell and collect the contents in a bowl.\u00a0 You see that in the centre is a yellow portion called the yolk. It contains the developing baby called the embryo.\u00a0 It also contains food for the embryo.\u00a0 Surrounding the yolk is a white portion called the albumin.\u00a0 It protects the embryo and provides water to it.<\/p>\n

After the eggs are laid, one of the parent birds, usually the mother sits on them to keep them warm.\u00a0 The baby birds start growing inside the eggs.\u00a0 After a few weeks, when the baby birds are fully developed, they break open the shell and come out.\u00a0 The parent birds feed and protect the young birds until they can look after themselves.<\/p>\n

Insects:
\n<\/strong>All insects lay eggs.\u00a0 Many of them go through several stages before changing into adults.\u00a0 Cockroaches pass through three stages in their life cycle,\u00a0 The baby cockroach that hatches out from a egg looks like the adult cockroach except that it does not have wings.\u00a0 It is called a nymph.\u00a0 It sheds its skin several times and changes into an adult. Shedding of old skin is called moulting.<\/p>\n

Grasshoppers, locusts and termites also go through these three stages.\u00a0 Butterflies and moths go through four stages in their life cycle before becoming adults.\u00a0 The female butterfly lays eggs in clusters on the under part of a leaf.\u00a0 The eggs hatch into young called larvae.\u00a0 They look like worms.\u00a0 The larva of a butterfly is called a caterpillar.\u00a0 The caterpillar eats leaves and grows quickly.\u00a0 It then forms a shell called cocoon around its body.\u00a0 This stage is called pupa.\u00a0 Inside the pupa the caterpillar slowly changes its shape.\u00a0 An adult butterfly finally comes out of the pupa.<\/p>\n

Aquatic animals that lay eggs:<\/em><\/strong>
\nA female frog lays hundreds of eggs at a time in a lake or a pond.\u00a0 When the eggs hatch, tiny tadpoles come out.\u00a0 They swim in the water and look like fish.\u00a0 After a few weeks the tadpoles start to grow legs.\u00a0 Their tails become shorter and shorter and finally disappear.\u00a0 After some time they change into adult frogs.
\nFish lay eggs in water.\u00a0 They lay thousands of eggs at one time.\u00a0 Baby fish hatch out of the eggs.\u00a0 But many of the eggs and baby fish are eaten by other fish.
\nCrocodiles dig shallow pits in sandy river banks to lay their eggs.\u00a0 The mother covers the eggs with sand and guards them.\u00a0 When the babies hatch it digs away the sand and sets them free.\u00a0 As they come out, the mother keeps them in a special pouch at the bottom of her mouth.
\nTurtles and tortoise dig holes in the sand and lay their eggs in it.\u00a0 They cover them and leave them alone to hatch. The young find their way out and crawl to the nearest water.
\nThe Australian duck-billed platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs.<\/p>\n

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All living things grow, get old and then die.\u00a0 All living things produce young ones like themselves so that life on Earth can continue.\u00a0 Animals reproduce in different ways.\u00a0 A lion or a human gives live birth. Birds and frogs lay eggs from which babies hatch. Plants: A plants life cycle starts with a seed. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[102,221,236,302,700,1007,1031,1226,1336,1345,1449,1536],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-science","tag-animal","tag-butterfly","tag-caterpillar","tag-cockraoch","tag-frog","tag-larva","tag-life-cycle","tag-nymph-fish","tag-plant","tag-platypus","tag-pupa","tag-reproduction"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}