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Sexual Repriduction
Term | Definition |
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Sexual reproduction | reproduction in which the genetic materials from two different cells combine,producing a offspring |
egg | female sex cell |
sperm | male sex cell |
fertilization | egg and sperm cell join together |
zygote | new cell that forms from fertilization |
diploid | cells that have pairs of chromosomes |
homologous chromosomes | pair of chromosomes that have genes for the same trait arranged in the same order |
haploid | cells that have only one chromosomes from each pair |
meiosis | one diploid cell divides and makes 4 haploid sex cells |
asexual reproduction | one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and fertillization |
fission | cell division in prokaryotes that forms two genetically identical cells |
budding | new organism grows by mitosis and cell division on the body of the parents |
regeneration | when offspring grows a piece of its parents |
vegetative reproduction | asexual reproduction in which offspring grow from a part of a parent plant |
cloning | asexual reproduction performed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or from a cluster of cells taken from a multicrellular organism |