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Uric acid is a compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen with the formula C5H4N4O3. It forms ions and salts known as urates and acid urates, such as ammonium acid urate. Uric acid is a product of metabolic breakdown of purine nucleotides and it it a normal component of urine. In human blood plasma, theContinue reading “What is uric acid? What are the preventive measures of uric acid?”

In asexual reproduction, crossing over does not take place and gamates are not produced. So, offspring produced by asexual reproduction are genetically identical to the parent. But in case of sexual reproduction,crossing over takes place during the formation of gamets. So variation occurs in the offspring

A sporophyte is a multicellular diploid generation found in plants and algae that undergo alternation of generations. It produces haploid spores that develop into a gametophyte. The gametophyte then makes gametes that fuse and grow into a sporophyte. The gamete producing and usually haploid phase, producing the zygote from which the sporophyte arises(in the lifeContinue reading “What is Sporophyte and gametophyte”