Chapter 4 Vocabulary - Reproduction of Organisms

Describes a cell that has pairs of chromosomes.

• diploid

• haploid

• meiosis

Genetic information in a cell

• DNA

• culture

• chromosome

• chromatid

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Female sex cell

• egg

• haploid

• diploid

• meiosis

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Describes a cell that has only one chromosome from each pair.

• haploid

• diploid

• homologous

• zygote

Pairs of chromosomes - one inherited from each parent - that have genes for the same traits arranged in the same order.

• homologous chromosomes

• zygote

• regeneration

• cloning

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Process in which one diploid cell divides to make haploid sex cells.

• meiosis

• budding

• fission

• cloning

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Production of offspring from the combination of genetic materials from two cells.

• sexual reproduction

• vegetative reproduction

• regeneration

• asexual reproduction

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New cell formed through fertilization.

• Zygote

• haploid

• diploid

• regeneration

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Production of offspring by one parent without meiosis and fertilization.

• asexual reproduction

• sexual reproduction

• meiosis

• mitosis

Asexual reproduction in which a new organism grows on the body of its parent.

• budding

• cloning

• regeneration

• fission

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