Learn the Reproduction in Animals in an easy way.
Definition, Examples and type
1. Mammals
2. Egg laying animals
Explanation, Features, examples
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2. Let’s recall…
— Animals can live happily all their lives growing,
eating and moving around. But if they don’t
produce more of their own kind, they will have
nobody to represent them in the future
— Therefore, in order to continue their race, animals
produce young ones. The process by which living
things produce their offspring is known as
reproduction. Life would not have existed on the
earth if living beings did not reproduce.
3. Let’s recall….
— Animals can be grouped into those that give birth
to their offspring and those that lay egg that
eventually hatch into offspring.
— For example,
Human beings, cows, buffaloes, cat, etc. give birth to
their young ones.
Birds, fish, frogs, hens, etc. lay eggs out of which the
young ones hatch.
4. Animals That Give Birth to
Offspring
— Definition:
Animals that give birth to their young ones are called
mammals.
— Examples:
Human beings,
Cows,
Sheep,
Bat and Aquatic: whale, dolphin, seal
9. Features of the mammals
— They have highly developed brain.
— Their bodies are covered with hair or fur to keep
them warm.
— They maintain constant body temperature despise
changing climatic conditions, why they are called
warm- blooded animals.
— They have four limbs, They may have two legs and
two arms or a pair of flippers and fins.
10. Features of the mammals
— Mammals look after their young ones properly.
— They feed them with warm milk.
— They keep them clean them, keeps them warm and
protect them from enemies and climatic
conditions.
11. Animals that lay eggs
— The egg-laying animals include birds, amphibians,
aquatic animals, insects and reptiles.
— These animals lay eggs and keep them in a warm
place or sit on them to keep them warm.
— The eggs hatch after maturing and the babies come
out of them.
— Examples: Birds Fish Turtle
Bee Frog
15. Structure of an egg
— The outermost part of an egg is the egg shell. It
protects the young one developing inside
— The middle part consists of the yolk. It is yellow in
colour and rich in fats, proteins, vitamins and
minerals. The yolk provides nutrition to the
developing embryo.
— Inside the yolk lies an embryo which later develops
into a chick.
— A white jelly-like substance called the albumen is
present outside the yolk. It is rich in protein and
protects the yolk and the embryo.
18. Birds
— A bird lays eggs in a nest and sits on them to keep
them warm.
— After some time the eggs hatch and the baby bird
comes out.
— But within the egg, the embryo goes through
different stages of development before it is ready to
hatch out
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21. Amphibians
— Amphibians like frogs lay their eggs in large cluster
called spawns in water.
— An egg develops into fish-like tadpole or larva. A
tadpole has a tail like a fish growing and changing
into a mature frog.
— In the process, it develops lings for breathing.
Finally it becomes an adult frog.
— The process of change of a tadpole into an adult is
called metamorphosis.
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23. Aquatic animals
— Aquatic animals like fish lay about thousands of
eggs at a time.
— But only a few hundred survive while most of them
are eaten up by other big fish.
— The eggs grow into baby fish.
— A baby fish is called fry.
24. Insects
— Insects like housefly and butterfly also lay eggs.
— They have four stages of development
— While insects like cockroach have only three stages
of development.
— The larva of a cockroach is known as nymph.
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26. Insects
— An egg of a butterfly or housefly develops into a
worm-like larva. A larva is called a caterpillar in
case of a butterfly and a maggot in case of a
housefly.
— The caterpillar feeds on leaves and grows. After me
time, it spins a cocoon around itself.
— In this stage, it is called pupa. Later when the pupa
opens, an adult butterfly comes out of it. The
maggot feeds on garbage and then crawls to a cool
place. There it transforms into a pupa. The adult
housefly comes out of it.
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28. Reptiles
— Reptiles like lizards, snakes, turtles and crocodiles
lay their eggs in holes in the ground.
— These eggs have a hard shell and do not break
easily.
— Some mothers go away after laying their eggs and
never come back to take care of their young ones.
— Therefore, many of these eggs are eaten up by
other animals. The remaining eggs may get some
warmth from the sun's heat and hatch.
30. New Concepts
— Flipper:
It is a wide flat limb which s adapted for swimming in
whale, seal and other aquatic mammals.
— Embryo:
It is an organism at any time before hatching or birth
— Amphibian:
It is an animals, which is capable of living both on
land and in water.