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Chapter 6
Lesson 1 and Lesson 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sexual reproduction | a type of reproduction in which the genetic materials from two different cells combine, producing an offspring |
| egg | the female sex cell, an egg forms in an ovary |
| sperm | the male sex cell, a sperm forms in a testis |
| fertilization | an egg cell and a sperm cell join together |
| zygote | the new cell cell that forms from fertilization |
| diploid | cells that have pairs of chromosomes |
| homologous chromosomes | pairs of chromosomes that have genes for the same traits arranged in the same order |
| haploid | cells that have only one chromosome from each pair |
| meiosis | one diploid cell divides and makes four haploid sex cells |
| asexual reproduction | one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis or fertilization |
| fission | cell division in prokaryotes that forms two genetically identical cells |
| budding | a new organism grows by mitosis and cell division on the body of its parent |
| regeneration | this occurs when an offspring grows from a piece of its parent |
| vegetative reproduction | a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring grow from a part of a parent plant |
| cloning p.1 | a type of asexual reproduction performed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or from a cluster of cells taken from a multicellular organism |
| cloning p.2 | taken form a multicellular organism |
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