CBSE 12th Biology Reproduction Chapter: What is budding?

BY Team Aakash Byju's

 It is an essential life process by which new organisms are produced from their parents.

Reproduction

Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not require a combination of germ cells.

Asexual reproduction:

Asexual reproduction takes place in different ways. They include fission, budding, fragmentation, regeneration and parthenogenesis.

Budding is a process of asexual reproduction in which a new individual is produced from a bud-like structure.

Budding

This bud-like structure is formed by the process of cell division. Example: Yeast and hydra.

 Yeast is a unicellular organism. It belongs to Kingdom fungi.

Budding in yeast

During asexual reproduction, small bulb-like structures are formed over the body of the yeast cell.

The bulb-like structure is known as bud. It increases in size gradually.

After some days, this bud separates from the yeast cell. This new yeast cell grows in size and maturity. After some days, a new bud forms over it.

Sometimes a chain of birds may farm over a single yeast cell. They separate and grow as new individuals. 

In this process, more yeast cells are produced in a very short period of time.

Budding in Hydra Hydra is a simple creature. It has the ability to regenerate.

 The regenerative cells of hydra develop a bud as an external growth by the process of cell division.

These buds gradually develop and grow into new organisms. After complete development, they separate from their parents and grow independently.