Genetics/Heredity Vocab

A molecule that contains the information that determines the traits that a living thing inherits and needs to live.

• DNA

• Cytokinesis

• chromatin

• Cell Cyle

Visible structures that chromatin is compacted into

• DNA

• Chromosomes

• Nucleus

• zygote

Two identical structures of a duplicated chromosome

• centromere

• eggs

• chromatids

• genes

Hold together the chromatids

• centromere

• DNA

• sperm cells

• haploid

Part of the cell cycle during which the nucleus divides

• meiosis

• mitosis

• reproduction

• zygote

The type of cell division that produces haploid sex cells such as eggs and sperm cells

• meiosis

• mitosis

• reproduction

• offspring

One organism produces one or more organisms identical to itself

• Sexual Reproduction

• meiosis

• asexual reproduction

• zygote

The organism that produces the new organism

• parent

• offspring

• sperm cell

• egg

the new organism

• offspring

• parent

• egg

• nucleus

Asexual reproduction in prokaryotes

• binary fission

• budding

• meiosis

• spore