Key Area 3: Reproduction Flashcards
The male gametes are?
The sperm cells
The sperm cells are produced in the?
Testes
The sperm travel from the testes along the?
Sperm duct
After the sperm travels through the sperm duct
They are released into the top of the female vagina
The female gametes are?
Eggs
The eggs are produced in?
The ovaries
The egg travels from the ovaries along the?
Oviduct
Gametes are?
Haploid
Fertilisation is the fusion of the?
Nuclei of the two haploid gametes to produce a diploid zygote
Haploid is
the presence of a single set of chromosomes in an organism’s cells
The diploid zygote divides to form an?
Embryo
Diploid
A cell containing two copies of each chromosome
The anther?
Produces pollen grains
The sepal?
protects the bud
the stigma?
collects pollen
The ovary?
is the site of fertilisation
the ovary in plants produces the
ovule
In plants the fusion of the two nuclei is of the pollen and the ovules is in the?
Ovary
In animals the fusion of the two nuclei of sperm and eggs is in the
oviduct
Body cells are diploid
contain a double set of chromosomes
Gametes are haploid
single set of chromosome
