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