Sexual Reproduction
True or False. Plants and animals can reproduce sexually.
True
A process of cell division in which two new cells are formed each containing the original number of chromosomes
What is a mitosis?
The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
A type of reproduction that involves two parents.
What is sexual reproduction?
This is another word for children.
What are offspring?
Cells that have a pair of chromosomes.
What is diploid?
Form of reproduction in which one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and fertilization
What is asexual reproduction?
The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
What is Genetics?
A type of reproduction that requires only one parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
How a trait appears, or the physical expression of a trait.
What is phenotype?
Cells that have only one chromosome from each pair (example 23 out of 46)
What are haploid?
Form of asexual reproduction that occurs when a new organism grows by mitosis and cell division on the body of its parent
What is a budding?
The Austrian monk who was known as the "Father of Genetics", thanks to his study of pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Budding and binary fission are an example of this.
What is asexual reproduction?
A model used to predict possible genotypes and phenotypes of offspring.
What is a Punnett Square?
The process in which an egg cell and a sperm cell join together to make a zygote.
What is fertilization?
Cell division in prokaryotes that forms two genetically identical cells
What is a fission?
An trait that is always expressed when it is present.
What is a dominant trait?
The main advantage is that offspring inherit unique traits, genetic variants.
What is sexual reproduction?
When the two alleles of a gene are the same.
What is homozygous?
The process in which one diploid cell divides (twice) and makes four haploid cells
What is meiosis?
A type of asexual reproduction performed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or from a cluster of cells
What is an cloning?
A trait that is only expressed when the dominant one is not present.
What is a recessive trait?
The main advantage is that this allows offspring to be produced quickly.
What is asexual reproduction?
When the two alleles of a gene are different.
What is heterozygous?