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Term | Definition |
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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 |