Asexual Reproduction
This type of reproduction involves only one parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
Sexual reproduction involves the fusion of these kinds of cells.
What are gametes?
The male reproductive part of a flower that produces pollen.
What is the stamen?
The process that results in the division of a cell's nucleus to form two identical nuclei.
What is mitosis?
The different forms or versions of a gene.
What are alleles?
A process of asexual reproduction where a parent organism splits into two identical individuals.
What is binary fission?
The male gamete in animals.
What is sperm?
The female reproductive part of a flower where seeds are developed.
What is the pistil?
The process in which a single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing half the original amount of genetic information.
What is meiosis?
The natural occurrence when genetic variation leads to different traits helpful for survival and reproduction in changing environments.
What is natural selection?
Yeast cells often reproduce by this method, where a new organism grows out of the body of the parent.
What is budding?
This is the female gamete in animals.
What is an egg?
This part of the plant is responsible for the production of seeds through flowers or cones.
What is the reproductive system?
The phase in mitosis where replicated chromosomes are aligned in the middle of the cell.
What is metaphase?
The genetic factor that gets masked by a dominant gene, yet still is passed on to the next generation.
What is a recessive allele?
This type of plant reproduction involves cloning a part of the parent plant.
What is vegetative propagation?
The process by which organisms produce offspring that are genetically distinct from their parents.
What is sexual reproduction?
The process where pollen is transferred from male to female flower parts for fertilization to occur.
What is pollination?
The structure that pulls apart chromosomes during cell division.
What is the spindle apparatus?
The process by which organisms maintain a stable internal environment despite external changes.
What is homeostasis?
Name one organism that can reproduce through fragmentation, where a piece of the organism can grow into a new individual.
What is a starfish?
The combining of genetic material from two parents to produce genetically diverse offspring.
What is fertilization?
The part of a flower where ovules are produced, which later become seeds.
What is the ovary?
The sequence of steps a cell undergoes as it grows and divides.
What is the cell cycle?
The random changes in genes that can introduce new traits into a population over time.
What is mutation?