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Asexual Reproduction |
a mode of reproductionby which offspring arise from a single organism and inherit the genes of that parent only it is reproduction which almost never involves ploidy or reduction |
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Sexual reproduction |
The process of sexual reproduction involves two parents Both parents normally contribute one gamete or sex cell to the process this process assures that the genetic information given to the offspring will be obtained equally from each parent the female gamete is called the egg or the ovum and the male gamete is called a sperm |
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Gamete |
a mature haploid male or female germ cell that is able to unite with another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote |
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Meiosis |
a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell as in the production of gametes and plant spores |
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Fertilization |
the action or process of fertilizing an egg female animal or plant involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote |
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Diploid |
containing two complete sets of chromosomes one from each parent |
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Haploid |
having a single set of unpaired chromosomes |
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Homologous Chromosomes |
homologous chromosomes is a set of one maternal chromosome and one paternalchromosome that pair up with each other inside a cell during meiosis |
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Autosome |
any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome |
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Sex Chromosome |
a chromosome involved with determining the sex of an organism typically one of two kinds |
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Independent Assortment |
formation of random combinations of chromosomes in meiosis and of genes on different pairs of homologous chromosomes by the passage according to the laws of probability of one of each diploid pair of homologous chromosomes into each gamete independently of each other pair |
