Meiosis
Male and female gametes.
What are egg cells and sperm cells?
Where DNA is found in the cell.
What is the nucleus?
The biggest advantage of sexual reproduction.
What is genetic variation/diversity?
The process by which identical offspring are produced from one parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
What chromosomes are made of.
What is DNA?
Cells with only one set of chromosomes.
What is a haploid cell/gamete?
The process by which diploid cells are formed.
What is mitosis?
The biggest disadvantage of sexual reproduction.
What is more time and energy?
A disadvantage of asexual reproduction.
What is no genetic variation?
Segments of DNA that code for amino acids.
What are genes?
The phase in which crossing over occurs.
What is Prophase I?
The process by which chromosomes exchange pieces of DNA to create genetic diversity.
What is crossing over?
The process by which an offspring is produced from the union of an egg cell and a sperm cell.
What is fertilization?
Type of reproduction by which an offspring grows off of the body of the parent organism.
What is budding?
What DNA is made of.
What are nucleotides?
The phase in which the recombinant homologous chromosomes are separated.
What is Anaphase I?
The process by which haploid cells are formed.
What is meiosis?
When humans breed for the traits they want to see in the offspring of a plant or animal species.
What is selective breeding/artificial selection?
An advantage of asexual reproduction.
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The phase in which the recombinant sister chromatids are separated.
What is Anaphase II?
Another name for a body cell.
What is a somatic cell?
Cell that forms after fertilization.
What is a zygote?
Type of reproduction by which an organism splits itself in half to produce offspring.
What is binary fission?
The four nitrogen bases of nucleotides.
What are adenine, thymine (uracil), guanine, and cytosine?