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Ch 4 Vocab

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sexual reproduction   a type of reproduction in which the genetic materials from two different cells combine, producing an offspring  
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egg   the female sex cell which forms in an ovary  
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sperm   the male sex cell which forms in the testis  
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fertilization   a process where an egg cell and a sperm cell join together  
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zygote   the new cell that forms from fertilization  
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diploid cells   cells that have pairs of chromosomes  
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homologous chromosomes   pairs of chromosomes that have genes for the same traits arranged in the same order  
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haploid cells   cells that have only one chromosome from each pair  
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meiosis   process when one diploid cell divides and makes four haploid sex cells  
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asexual reproduction   when one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and fertilization  
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fission   cell division that forms two genetically identical cells  
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budding   the process during which a new organism grows by mitosis and cell division on the body of its parent  
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regeneration   a type of asexual reporduction that occurs when an offspring grows from a piece of its parent  
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vegetative reproduction   a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring grow from a parent plant  
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cloning   a type of asexual reproduction performed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or a cluster of cells taken from a multicellular organism  
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