Unit 8.4 Reproduction & Heredity

An organism that produces offspring through reproduction.

• Parent

• Heredity

• Gene

• Fertilization

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The organism resulting from reproduction.

• Parent

• Offspring

• Heredity

• Trait

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Reproduction in which one parent produces offspring that are genetically identical to themselves.

• Parent

• Offspring

• Asexual Reproduction

• Sexual Reproduction

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Reproduction in which the sex cells from two parents unite to produce offspring that share traits from both parents.

• Fertilization

• Zygote

• Asexual Reproduction

• Sexual Reproduction

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The union of a male and female gamete to form a zygote.

• Fertilization

• Gene

• Heredity

• Asexual Reproduction

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A fertilized egg cell.

• Parent

• Offspring

• Zygote

• Heredity

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The passing of genetic material from parent to offspring.

• Fertilization

• Zygote

• Trait

• Heredity

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Physical characteristic of an organism.

• Heredity

• Trait

• Zygote

• Gene

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A parent's two alleles for a trait will separate and only one is passed to offspring.

• Mendel's Law of Segregation

• Mendel's Law of Dominance

• Darwin's Law of Evolution

• Mendeleev's Law of Elements

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When organism has two different alleles for a trait, one allele will dominant

• Newton's Law of Motion

• Mendel's Law of Segregation

• Mendel's Law of Dominance

• Wallace's Line of Evolution