Vocabulary A
Vocabulary B
Butterfly Life Cycle
100
A stages that a living thing passes through as it grows and changes.
What is a life cycle.
100

A fertilized egg receiving chromosomes from each parent.

What is a zygote.

100
The life cycle of a butterfly begins with an......
What is an egg?
200
The process of replacing tissue.
What is regeneration?
200

Gametes are formed during this process and the number of chromosomes in a cell are divided in half.

What is meiosis?

200
Which the caterpillar becomes large enough, it stops eating and turns into a...
What is pupa?
300
The process by which most cells divide.
What is mitosis?
300

The changes animals undergo as they grow and mature.

What is metamorphosis?

300
The butterfly egg hatches into a _____________

called a caterpillar.
What is larva?
400
A threadlike structure in the nucleus, made up of DNA.
What is a chromosome?
400
An egg hatches into a caterpillar, which eats, makes a pupa, emerges as a moth, and lays eggs. This is an example of...

A) mitosis

B) meiosis

C) life cycle

D) instinct
What is (C) life cycle.
400
Inside the pupa, the larva changes into an _____________ butterfly.
What is adult?
500
If an organism has 12 chromosomes in its body cells, how many chromosomes do its gametes and zygotes have?

A) gametes 3 chromosomes, and zygotes 9

B) gametes 12 chromosomes, and zygotes 6

C) gametes 6 chromosomes, and zygotes 12

D) gametes 2 chromosomes, and zygotes 4
What is (C) gametes 6 chromosomes, and zygotes 12?
500

During mitosis this part of the cell pinches in to make a new cell.

What is the cell membrane?

500
On a sheet of paper, EXPLAIN how cell division helps organisms grow.
Key words and phrases: Cell division,

new cells with same functions as old cells,

this increases the size of body organs
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