Chapter 8 Flashcards
Budding
Unequal size. Clone but smaller.
Eg. Hydra, Yeats
Vegetative reproduction
A limb of a plant. Production of a new plant through horizontal roots.
Eg. Strawberries, grass
Spore formation
Clones. Single cellular. Light. Powdery. Easily des dispersed
Eg. Mushroom, fungi, ferns, mosses.
Fission
Division of a cell. Fast. Clone.
Eg. Bacteria, amoeba, prokaryotes
Clone
An organism or cell, produced asexually from one parent, to which they are genetically identical.
GMO
Genetically modified organism.
Getting desirable genes and creating a new organism.
Embryo splitting.
Natural. Zygote splits into two then two babies form
Nuclear transfer
Remove nucleus from egg and place a somatic cell in and zap it, to for a new cell.
Prophase 1
Crossing over
Homologous pares
Two chromosomes with the same everything but the genetics info.
Chiasmata
Point that cross over swaps