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Meiosis Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asexual Reproduction | 2 cells produced by cell division are gennetically identical to the cell that produced them |
| Sexual Reproduction | involves the fushion of two reproductive cells formed by each of two parents |
| Chromosome | genetic information is bundled into packages of DNA |
| Chromatid | one of two identical sister parts of a duplicated chromosome |
| Gene | a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring |
| Allele | one of different forms of gene |
| Meiosis | is the process in which the number of chromosomes per cell is cut in half through the seperation of homologous chromosomes in a diploid cell |
| Homologous chromosomes | each of the four chromosomes from the male parent has a corresponding chromosome from the female parent |
| Tetrad | in prophase I of meiosis, each replicated chromosome pairs with its corresponding homologous chromosome |
| Crossing Over | as the chromosomes pair, they sometimes undergo a process |
| Gamete | sex cell |
| Diploid | a cell with two sets of hormologous chromosomes |
| Haploid | single cell of chromosomes |