Reproduction
Advantages/
Disadvantages
Meiosis
Flowers
Asexual Reproduction
100
the production of offspring that results when genetic material from 2 different cells combine
What is sexual reproduction?
100
this advantage to sexual reproduction is due to a variety of genetic traits in a population.
What is genetic variation?
100
Name the phases of meiosis
Prophase I Metaphase I Anaphase I Telophase I Prophase II Metaphase II Anaphase II Telophase II
100
the male reproductive organ of a flower
What is the stamen?
100
the asexual reproduction bacteria use to produce 2 genetically identical cells
What is fission?
200
the production of offspring by one parent without a sperm and egg joining.
What is asexual reproduction?
200
Plant and animal breeders select parents for future offspring due to desired traits.
What is selective breeding?
200
a cell that contains pairs of chromosomes that equal the chromosome number of that organism's species.
What is a diploid cell?
200
the female reproductive organ of a flower
What is the pistil?
200
a type of sexual reproduction in which a new organism forms on the parent organism.
What is budding?
300
the fusing together of a sperm cell and an egg cell.
What is fertilization?
300
Name 2 disadvantages for sexual reproduction.
1. Getting the sperm and egg together. 2. Time required for organisms to reach maturity.
300
a cell that contains one chromosome from each homologous pair.
What is a haploid cell?
300
pollen grains form at the tip of the stamen called the ____
What is the anther?
300
a type of asexual reproduction that produces new plants.
What is plant cutting?
400
the organism that forms after fertilization.
What is a zygote?
400
An advantage for this type of reproduction is that it does not require a mate.
What is sexual reproduction?
400
Name 2 differences between Meiosis and Mitosis
1. Meiosis undergoes cell division twice and Mitosis once. 2. Mitosis produces 2 diploid cells and Meiosis 4 diploid cells.
400
at the tip of the pistil pollen lands on the ________
What is the stigma?
400
asexual reproduction developed by scientists that produces identical individuals from a cell.
What is cloning?
500
cell division that produces sperm or eggs from certain reproductive cells in an organism.
What is meiosis?
500
Name 2 disadvantages for asexual reproduction
1. lack of genetic variation 2. genetic mutations
500
True or False The parent cells in both Meiosis and Mitosis are diploid cells.
True
500
this female organ contains the ovules.
What is the ovary?
500
a cell that can become any type of cell in an organism
What is a totipotent stem cell?
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