Chapter 4 Vocabulary Flashcards
A type of reproduction-fission, budding, and regeneration in which transport proteins minus particles and move them through cell membrane.
Asexual reproduction
Structure of a cells nucleus that contains hereditary material.
Chromosome
Cell whose similar chromosomes occur in pairs.
Diploid
Deoxyribonucleic acid; the genetic material of all organisms; made up of two twisted strands of super price for molecules in nitrogen bases.
DNA
Haploid sex cells formed in the female reproductive organs.
Egg
In sexual reproduction the joining of a sperm and egg.
Fertilization
Section of DNA on a chromosome that contains instructions on making a specific protein.
Gene
Cell that has half of the number of chromosomes as a body cell.
Haploid
Reproductive process that four haploid sex cells occur from one diploid cell and ensures offspring will have the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell.
Meiosis
Cell process in which the nucleus divides to form two nuclei identical to each other and identical to the original nucleus in a series of steps called prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.
Mitosis
Any permanent change in a gene or chromosome of a cell may be beneficial, harmful, or have little affect on the organism.
Mutation
Ribonucleic acid; a type of nucleic acid that carries codes for making proteins from the nucleus to the ribosomes.
RNA
A type of reproduction in which two sex cells usually an egg and a sperm, Join to form a zygote, which will develop into a new organism with a unique identity.
Sexual reproduction
Haploid sex cells formed in the male reproductive organs.
Sperm
New diploid cell formed when a sperm fertilizes an egg; will divide by mitosis and develop into a new organism.
Zygote
