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Chapter 8: CR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What roles does cellular reproduction play in the lives of organisms? | the birth of new organisms, more commonly involves the production of new cells |
| What is asexual? | does not involve fertilization of an egg by a sperm. |
| What is sexual? | It requires fertilization of an egg by a sperm. |
| What is mitosis? Which type of reproduction is it? | the division of a single nucleus into two genetically identical daughter nuclei. It is asexual production. |
| What is meiosis? Which type of reproduction is it? | in a sexually reproducing organism the process of cell division that produces haploid gametes from diploid cells within the reproductive organs. It is sexual reproduction. |
| What is chromatin? | Fibers composed of roughly equal amounts of DNA and protein molecules. |