Chapter 8- The Cellular Basis Of Reproductionand Inheritance Flashcards
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Sexual reproduction
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Fertilization by another organism of the same species. Allows for large gene pool
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Asexual reproduction
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Organism fertilizes itself. Allows it to continue to reproduce but also is bad because it does not exchange DNA and the hurts the gene pool.
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Fertilization
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The Union of a sperm and egg.
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Genome
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Genetic information
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Chromosomes
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Structures containing organisms DNA
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Cell Division
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The reproduction of cells by splitting in two