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vocabulary 2/18
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reproduction in which sex cells of which sex cells of each parent unite to produce offspring that share traits from both | sexual reporduction |
reproduction that doesn't involve the union of the sex cells in which a single parent produces it & it genetically looks identical | asexual reproduction |
to breed or cause the production of the hybrid | hybridization |
human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired traits | selective breeding |
a cell, cell products or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual form which it was deprived | cloning |
in an eukaryotic cell, one of the structures in the nucleus that are made up of DNA & protein;in the prokaryotic cell, the main ring of DNA | chromosomes |
organism carrying an unexpressed defective gene | carrier |
diagram that shows the occurrence of a genetic trait in several generations of family- like a "family tree" | pedigree |
breed from closely related people or animals | inbreeding |
phenotypic expression of an allele related to the chromosomal sex of the individual | sex-linked cells |
when the egg & sperm fuze | zygote |
process of cell division which the # of chromosomes decrease by 2 divisions of the nucleus, which results in the production of sex cells | meiosis |
action/process of fertilizing an egg, female animal, or plant involving the fusion of male & female gametes to form a zygote | fertilization |
a pair of chromosomes that determine the sex of an indivisual | sex chromosomes |
containing to complete set of chromosomes 1 from each parent | diploid |
describes a cell, nucleus or organism that has only one set of unpaired chromosomes | haploid |
a mature haploid male/female germ cell that is able to unite with another of opposite sex in sexual production to form a zygote | gamete |
fertilization of an egg by sperm that occurs inside the body of a female | internal fertilization |
union of sex cells outside the bodies of the parents | external fertilization |
chromosomes that carry the same set of genes | homologous chromosomes |
male sex cell | sperm |
female sex cell | egg |