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What is life?
the property possessed by living things
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What are living things composed of?
one or more cells
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What is metabolism?
rapid turnover of chemical materials
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What are hormones?
chemicals only
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Why are hormones important?
they coordinate activities within an organism
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What is asexual reproduction?
produces a new organism with 1 parent
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What is budding?
a form of sexual reproduction in which a new organism grows from the body of the parent
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What is sexual reproduction?
produces a new organism with 2 parents
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What type of reproduction do hammerhead sharks use?
parthenogenesis
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What happens in sexual reproduction?
shuffling of chromosomes during meiosis
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What is vegetative reproduction?
a form of asexual reproduction in plants, where parts of the plant falls of and develop into new plants
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What type of plant undergoes sexual reproduction?
flowering plant
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Why is asexual reproduction faster and easier than sexual reproduction?
another partner is not needed and doesn’t have to be found
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What are chromosomes? How many chromosomes do you have?
fat strands of DNA covered with protein that carry genetic code 46 (23 from your mother, 23 from your father)
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What is DNA?
compound in chromosomes that codes and stores genetic info and controls all cell activities
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What is an egg?
sex cell (gamete) produced in ovaries of female parent
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What is a sperm?
sex cell (gamete) produced in males
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What is a mutation?
permanent change in an organisms DNA
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How are gametes formed?
produced by a type of cell division called meiosis
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Garden plants, like roses, often reproduce by…
cloning.
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What is meiosis?
cell division that produces sex cell that have only half the normal number of chromosomes
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What does diploid mean?
containing two sets of chromosomes
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What does haploid mean?
containing only one set of chromosomes
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What are gametes?
egg or sperm (sex cells)
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Yeast reproduces asexually through a process called…
budding.
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