Chapter 10: Inheritance in the Sexual Life Cycle

Question 1

production of offspring through union of male and female gametes

Answer 1

sexual reproduction

Question 2

eggs and sperm

Answer 2

gametes

Question 3

a specialized process of cell division that, in animals produces gametes

Answer 3

meiosis

Question 4

• body cells

- gametes have half the number of chromosomes here

Answer 4

somatic cells

Question 5

the nuclei of an egg and sperm cell fuse

Answer 5

fertilization

Question 6

the chromosome number is restored

Answer 6

zygote

Question 7

in humans, and other animals, meiosis takes place in the primary reproductive organs AKA _____

Answer 7

gonads

Question 8

one chromosome of each homologous pair, comes from the organism’s male parent

Answer 8

paternal chromosome

Question 9

one chromosome of each homologous pair, comes from the female parent

Answer 9

maternal chromosome

Question 10

fertilization produces the diploid generation

Answer 10

sporophytes

Question 11

certain cells of mature sporophytes undergo meiosis, producing haploid ____

Answer 11

spores

Question 12

• spores grown by mitotic divisions into a generation of haploid _____
• produce haploid egg and sperm nuclei

Answer 12

gametophytes

Question 13

2n

Answer 13

diploid

Question 14

n

Answer 14

haploid