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Science
Ch 4 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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sexual reproduction | a type of reproduction in which the genetic materials from two different cells combine, producing an offspring |
egg | the female sex cell which forms in an ovary |
sperm | the male sex cell which forms in the testis |
fertilization | a process where an egg cell and a sperm cell join together |
zygote | the new cell that forms from fertilization |
diploid cells | cells that have pairs of chromosomes |
homologous chromosomes | pairs of chromosomes that have genes for the same traits arranged in the same order |
haploid cells | cells that have only one chromosome from each pair |
meiosis | process when one diploid cell divides and makes four haploid sex cells |
asexual reproduction | when one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and fertilization |
fission | cell division that forms two genetically identical cells |
budding | the process during which a new organism grows by mitosis and cell division on the body of its parent |
regeneration | a type of asexual reporduction that occurs when an offspring grows from a piece of its parent |
vegetative reproduction | a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring grow from a parent plant |
cloning | a type of asexual reproduction performed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or a cluster of cells taken from a multicellular organism |