the type of asexual reproduction that hydras and sponges
What is budding?
100
the thin stalk-like part of the stamen
What is the filament?
100
the passing down of traits from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
100
the type of metamorphosis in which the animal goes through four different stages
What is complete metamorphosis?
100
the four parts that make a complete flower
What is the petals, sepals, stamens and pistils?
200
the type of asexual reproduction that unicellular protists and bacteria take part in
What is splitting?
200
the top of the filament
What is anther?
200
a trait that an offspring receives from its parents; for example hair and eye color
What is an inherited trait?
200
the non-feeding stage during which a hard cocoon surrounds the organism
What is the pupa?
200
the yellow powder that contains sperm cells
What is pollen?
300
the type of asexual reproduction in which plants send out runners from which new plants sprout and grow
What is vegatative propagtion?
300
the opening at the top of the pistil
What is stigma?
300
a way of acting or behaving that an animal is born with and does not have to learn; for example human babies are born knowing how to breath and spiders are born knowing how to spin a web
What is an instinct?
300
the joining of egg and sperm outside the female's body
What is external fertilization?
300
the process of alternating(switching)between asexual and sexual reproduction
What is alternation of generations?
400
the production of a new organism from a single parent
What is asexual reproduction?
400
the long neck-like structure that leads down to the ovary
What is style?
400
a behavior that is developed during an animal's lifetime;for example birds imprinting, dog's ability to sit and bark on command and people playing musical instruments
What is a learned behavior?
400
the joining of sperm and egg inside a female's body
What is internal fertilization?
400
a chart used to trace the history of traits in a family
What is a pedigree?
500
the production of a new organism from two parents
What is sexual reproduction?
500
the part of the flower that holds the egg cells
What is ovary?
500
Austrian monk who studied and discovered the basic principles of heredity
Who Gregor Mendel?
500
the only mammals that lay eggs
What are monotremes?
500
an individual who has inherited the gene for a trait but doesn't show that trait physically