Sience chap.11 Word Scramble
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adaptations | the ability of a species to survive in a particular ecological niche, esp. because of alterations of form or behavior brought about through natural selection |
body cells | cells that play no direct part in fertilization |
dominant character | inherited trait that overshadows the recessive trait and keeps it from showing in a hybrid |
dominant genes | genetic material that controls the dominant character traits |
flagellum | the whiplike tail that forms on a sperm cell, enabling it to move |
genetics | the science that studies heredity |
heredity | passong on of traits, or characteristics, from parent to offspring |
hybrids | offspring of a cross of parents having contrasting traits; contain two unlike genes for a trait, and exhibit the dominant trait |
incomplete dominance | blending inheritance; appearance of offspring is a mixture of the parents' contrasting traits |
meiosis | special kind of cell division that forms sex cells |
purebred | offspring are just like the parents in possessing two of the same genes for a trait |
recessive character | inherited teait that is overshadowed by a do,inant trait and is kept from showing in a hybrid |
recessive genes | genes for a recessive trait; overshadowed by dominant genes |
reduction division | cell division in which each new cell receives one-half the species number of chromosomes; occurs during formation of sex cells |
species number | number of chromosomes characteristic of the body cells of a species |
variations | differences that exist among all orfanisms of the same species |
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