The process in which cells from two parents join to produce offspring that are not genetically identical to either parent.
What is sexual reproduction
100
The type of reproduction your body cells use to duplicate or replace cells.
What is mitosis?
100
The passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring.
What is heredity?
100
The plant Gregor Mendel experimented with.
What is a pea plant?
100
The control center center of the cell which contains the genetic information.
What is nucleus?
200
Asexual reproduction in one-celled microorganismas and some types of plants.
What is binary fission?
200
The powerhouse of a cell.
What is mitochondria?
200
Many genes join together on these strands.
What is a chromosome?
200
Mendel's work formed the basis for this field of scientific study
What is genetics?
200
The organisms genetic make up.
What is genotype?
300
The form of reproduction that only involves one parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
300
Name two structures plant cells have that animal cells do not.
What is cell walls and chloroplasts?
300
An organism with two different alleles for a particular trait.
What is heterozygous?
300
Mendel is know at the father of__.
What is genetics?
300
The (genetic) difference between sexual and asexual reproduction.
What is asexual reproduction requires on parent and sexual reproduction requires two?
Or the number of individuals that provide the genetic information.
400
When egg and sperm join to form a new organism.
What is fertilization?
400
The process by which the cell divides and creates two new cells.
What is mitosis?
400
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait.
What is homozygous?
400
The main occupation of this scientist.
What is a monk?
400
Three of the four organic compounds found in living things.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
500
A process that insures that a cell produced by sexual reproduction has the normal number of chromosomes.
What is Meiosis?
500
The theory that genes are carried from parent to offspring on chromosomes.
What is the Chromosome theory of inheritance?
500
Nucleic acid used to produce transfer RNA.
What is messanger RNA?
500
The types of alleles used in his parental generation.
What is purebred or homozygous?
500
This nucleic acid carries amino acids and adds them to the growing protein.