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Science Noonan
Vocabulary Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sexual Repordution | The production of an offspring that results when two genetic materials from two different cells combine. |
| egg | Half of the genetic material is contained in an egg cell. (female) |
| Sperm | The other half in the sperm. (male) |
| Fertilization | is the fusing together of a sperm cell and an egg cell. |
| zygote | The new cell that forms is called a zygote. |
| Meiosis | is cell division that produces sperm or eggs from certain reproductive cells in an organism. |
| diploid | cells in an organism that contains pairs of chromosomes that equal the chromosome number of that organism's species. |
| haploid | A cell that contains one chromosome from each homologous pairs is called haploid cell. |