Genetics
The organelle that controls the cell's functions and contains its DNA.
What is the nucleus?
The type of reproduction that produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent organism.
What is asexual reproduction?
The male gamete.
What is a sperm cell?
The four phases of mitosis (in the correct sequence).
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
The term used to describe reproductive cells.
What are gametes?
The long form of the word DNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The type of asexual reproduction where the parent organism produces spores.
What is spore formation?
The female gamete.
What is an egg cell?
The phase of mitosis where the duplicated chromosomes are pulled apart toward each end of the cell.
What is anaphase?
The number of chromosomes in a haploid human cell.
What is 23?
Long bundles of DNA.
What are chromosomes?
The type of asexual reproduction where a group of rapidly dividing cells develops on an organism and then breaks away to form a new organism.
What is budding?
When an egg cell is fertilized outside of the body of the female.
What is external fertilization?
The long tube-like structures that pull the chromosomes to opposite ends of the cell.
What are spindle fibres?
The term for matching pairs of chromosomes (one from each parent).
What are homologous chromosomes?
What is a chromatid?
The type of asexual reproduction where a piece of an organism breaks away from it, and then develops into its own organism.
What is fragmentation?
The cell formed when a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell.
What is a zygote?
The stage in the cell cycle during which DNA is duplicated.
What is interphase?
The part of meiosis where chromosome number is halved.
What is Meiosis I?
The small structure that holds two chromatids together.
What is a centromere?
The type of asexual reproduction where a single parent cell splits into two equal parts.
What is binary fission?
After repeated cell division, the zygote forms this hollowed out mass of cells.
What is a blastula?
The stage of the cell cycle where chromosomes are "unwound" and do not form recognizable shapes.
What is interphase?
The part of meiosis where chromatid number is halved, but chromosome number remains the same.
What is Meiosis II?