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reproduction, growth
Biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Spontaneous Generation | The idea that living things come from non-living things (remember the flies in the meat) |
| Mitosis | The process that results in two cells IDENTICAL to the parent cell |
| Chromosome | A rod-shaped structure that contains DNA and is found in the nucleus of a cell |
| Meiosis | The process that results in sex cells (4) each sex cell contains on-half the number of chromosomes of the original cell |
| External Fertilization | Occurs outside the females body |
| Internal Fertilization | Occurs inside the females body |
| Embryo | The early state in the development of an organism. |
| Placenta | A tissue that provides the embryo with food and oxygen from its mothers body |
| Uterus | An organ in most female mammals that holds and protects an embryo |
| Gestation time | A period of development of a mammal, from fertilization until birth |
| Scrotum | The sac that holds the testes |
| Testosterone | Male sex hormones |
| Prostate gland | The gland that produces the fluid found in semen |
| Semen | A mixture of fluid and sperm cells |
| Estrogen | Female sex hormone |
| Progesterone | Female sex hormone |
| Ovulation | The process of releasing an egg from an ovary |
| Umbilical cord | The cord that connects and embryo to the placenta |
| Fetus | An embryo after eight weeks of development in the uterus |