Schimmel/Knight Vocabulary

A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent.

• Sexual reproduction
• Cross-pollination
• Fertilization
• Asexual reproduction

A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism which differs from both parents.

• Asexual reproduction
• Binary fission
• Budding
• Sexual reproduction

The process in sexual reproduction in which an egg cell and a sperm cell join to form a new cell.

• Fertilization
• Mitosis
• Meiosis
• Photosynthesis

A specific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring through its genes.

• Habitat
• Diet
• Trait
• Age

A sequence of DNA that determines a trait and is passed from parent to offspring.

• gene

• ovule

• cone

• allele

The process by which an offspring receives genes from its parents.

• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Digestion
• Inheritance

A different form of a gene.

• Allele
• Chromosome
• DNA
• Protein

Having a greater influence over.

• dominant

• recessive

• bossy

• trait

A fertilized egg, produced by the joining of a sperm and an egg.

• Zygote
• Embryo
• Fetus
• Ovum

The transfer of pollen from male reproductive structures to female reproductive structures in plants.

• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Transpiration
• Pollination