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By conducting careful experiments with pea plants, ________ ________ discovered how inheritance works.
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Gregor Mendel
(Chapter 2, p. 25) |
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____________ are small linear bodies contained in every cell and replicated during cell division.
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Chromosomes
(Chapter 2, p. 27) |
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__________ is the process of division of somatic (normal body) cells through which new diploid cells are created.
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Mitosis
(Chapter 2, p. 27) |
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__________ refers to cells containing pairs of homologous chromosomes, in which one chromosome of each pair is inherited from each parent.
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Diploid
(Chapter 2, p. 27) |
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________ is the process of cell division in which haploid gametes (egg and sperm) are created.
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Meiosis
(Chapter 2, p. 28) |
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_______ is a cell with only one copy of each chromosome.
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Haploid
(Chapter 2, p. 28) |
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In ________, the special cell division process that produces gametes, only half of the chromosomes are transmitted from the parent cell to the gamete.
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meiosis
(Chapter 2, p. 28) |
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___________ is the cell formed by the union of an egg and a sperm.
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zygote
(Chapter 2, p. 28) |
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Who was Gregor Mendel?
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He was a Silesian monk that is the father of genetic. He experimented on pea plants.
(Chapter 2, p. 24) |
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_________ is the creation of novel genotypes as a result of the random segregation of chromosomes and of crossing over.
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Recombination
(This process is extremely important for maintaining variation in natural populations.) (Chapter 2, p. 32) |
