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Sci. Mid-Term Ch 4-6
Sci. Mid-Term Exam Part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| offspring inherit _____________ of each parent in sexual reproduction | half the DNA |
| involves one parent organism | asexual reproduction |
| the female sex cell is an | egg |
| _____________ produces sex cells | meiosis |
| ____________ is the fertilized egg and sperm cell joined together | zygote |
| sex cells form through | meiosis |
| _________ are produced by ________ and cell division | 2 cells, mitosis |
| _______ cells are produced by a reproductive cell during _________ | 4, meiosis |
| _______________ is part of asexual reproduction | one parent |
| _____________ is the growth from a piece of the parent | regeneration |
| cloning is preformed in a _______________ | laboratory |
| ________________ is the joining of an egg and a sperm (fill in the blank) | fertilization |
| _____________________________ are always shown in an organism's offspring | dominant traits |
| a ________ is part of the DNA code on a chromosome | gene |
| ______________ is the study of heredity | genetics |
| a punnett square shows you all the ways in which ________ can combine | alleles |
| a _______________ stands for a dominant allele in a Punnet square | capital letter |
| the study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring is called _________________- | genetics |
| _____________________ is when the pollen lands on the same plant | self-pollination |
| _________________ is a model that helps make genetic predictions (fill in the blank) | punnett square |
| _____________ is a visual tool for following a trait through generations of a family (fill in the blank) | pedigree |
| ___________ are remains of life from an earlier time | fossils |
| outline of a fern found in a rock, petrified wood in the desert, baby mammoth found in a glacier | examples of fossils |
| by comparing _______, scientists can tell whether organisms are closely related | DNA |
| an example of ____________ are fooprints formed in mud that later turn into rock (fill in the blank) | trace fossils |
| 5 petrified wood is a fossil that forms through the process of ___________________ (fill in the blank) | mineralization |
| all organisms on Earth have ________ that are ade of DNA and work in similar ways (fill in the blank) | genes |