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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sexual reproduction | reproduction in which the genetic material from two different cells combine producing an offspring |
| egg | female sex cell |
| sperm | male sex cell |
| fertilization | egg cell and sperm cell combining |
| zygote | new cell that forms after fertilization |
| Diploid cells | cells that have pairs of chromosomes |
| homologous chromosomes | chromosomes that have genes for the same traits arranged in the same order |
| haploid cells | cells that only have one chromosome from each pair |
| meiosis | one diploid cell divides and makes four haploid cells |
| asexual reproduction | one parent organism produces a offspring without meiosis and fertilization |
| fission | cell division in a prokaryotes that forms two genetically identical cells |
| budding | a new organism grows by mitosis and cell division on the body of its parent |
| regeneration | when an offspring grows from a peice of its parent |
| vegetative reproduction | offspring grows from a part of a parent plant |
| cloning | preformed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or from a cluster of cells taken from a multicellular organism |