How do oysters have sex and make new generation oysters???!
How do oysters have sex and make new generation oysters???
think about it, they cant (in my opinion)
Answers:
You're wrong, they can.
The gonads, organs in oysters are responsible for producing both eggs and sperm, surround the digestive organs and are made up of sex cells, branching tubules and connective tissue.
i think they squirt the stuff out in a big cloud, and it mixes together and sticks to rocks and stuff and grows into little oysters. Think about that next time you go swimming.
Birds do it, bees do it, and oysters do it too, but in a different way. Oysters are marine bivalves that live on the bottom of the ocean by cementing themselves permanently to a hard surface. They do not actually mate as most terrestrial animals do. Instead, oysters broadcast their gametes in the water, and fertilization takes place outside of their bodies. Oysters also have two separate sexes, males and females. However, oysters can completely change their sex between mating seasons! Juvenile oysters usually mature as males first and then change to females later in life. Occasionally, one oyster can function as both female and male at the same time, a condition known as hermaphroditism.
Oysters have varying methods of reproduction. The European oyster and the Olympia oyster of the American Pacific Coast are hermaphrodites―that is, their reproductive organs contain both eggs and sperm. The eggs are fertilized within the body and are retained in the gills until shell-bearing larvae are formed. In the American bluepoint oyster of the Atlantic Coast, the sexes are separate. Females discharge millions of eggs into the water, where fertilization occurs. The larvae develop within six hours, swim actively for about two or three weeks, and then settle on stones or shells, where they mature by the end of the first year. The reproductive season varies according to the latitude of the habitat.
This is going to sound disgusting to anyone that has ever accidently drank sea water (come on, stop it...fish do NOT have restrooms!) but it is all done by the ejection of the reproductory material into the surrounding water.