CE Biology - Reproduction

Question

What is the difference between asexual reproduction and self fertilization?

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Asexual reproduction: the organism go through fission/budding and become two organisms

Self fertilization: the organism made 1N sex cells e.g. sperm/egg/megaspore/pollen etc and then these sex cells of the same individual fertilize each other.

So the main difference:

The whole reproductive process in asexual reproduction, all the cells remain 2N.

At some point of the process of self fertilization, sex cells [1N] are involved.