Reproduction Flashcards

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What is Amniotic fluid

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Amniotic fluid I’d the fluid which surrounds the Fetus which pretexts the Fetus from any damage

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What is the Anther

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The archer is the male part of the flower which produces pollen

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What is Asexual production

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Asexual production is the production of offspring from one parent

Genetically identical, Disease issue
Lots of offspring
Not a long time

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What is the Carpel

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The Carpel is a female part of the plant, it contains their stigmas, ovaries and styles

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What is a cutting

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A cutting is when a piece of a plant is cut from a plant (stem, root or leaf) and grown with plant rooting hormone and other nutrients into a new plant. Artificial asexual reproduction

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What is an Embryo

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An Embryo is young organism where rapid division of cells is occurring
In plants it develops in the seed
In humans it develops in the stages between Zygote and Fetus

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What is the Fetus

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The Fetus is the name of a baby developing in the uterus

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What is a fruit (biological terminology)

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A fruit is the fleshy structure surrounding a seed, formed from the ovary after fertilisation

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What is a gamete

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A gamete is a cells cell (meiosis devision of cells)

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What is the ovary

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The ovary is the structure containing immature egg cells

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What is an Ovule

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An Ovule is the female structure in a flower which contains one egg cell

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What is the placenta

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The placenta is a structure formed by a Fetus that attaches to the uterus was and exchanges essential substances between the mothers blood and the blood of the Fetus

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What is a pollen grain

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A pollen grain is a male structure in a plant that contains the male gametes

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What is the pollen tube

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The pollen tube is a tube that forms for the male gametes to go down, from the stigma to the female gametes I the ovary

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What is pollination

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Pollination is he process in which pollen from one flower is transferred to another flower

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What is a seed

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A seed is a hard shelled structure formed from the ovule that contains the plants embryo and food source

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What is sexual reproduction

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Sexual reproduction is the production of new individuals by the fusion of a male and female gamete

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What is the male gamete in humans

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Sperm

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What is the stamen

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The stamen is the male structure which contains the anther

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What is the stigma

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The stigma is the female structure win flowers which pollen grains attach to in pollination

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What is a style

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A style is the structure which supports the stigma in the flower, pollen tube grows within

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What are the testes

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The testes are the site of sperm production in men

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What is a Zygote

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A Zygote is a fertilised egg, formed from the fusion of a male gamete and female gamete

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what are the Phenotypes

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Characteristics, E.g. blue eyes, long fingers…

25
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what are the genotypes

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the alleles, E.g. Gg or GG…

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what are the gametes

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sexual cells, E.g. Sperm or Egg

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what does the placenta help the baby in the Ovary with

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placenta removes waste products, such as carbon dioxide

gives the baby nutrients, such as amino acids and oxygen

28
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what is micropropagation

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micropropagation is the cutting of a plant to then place it into the ground after being sterilised and coated in hormones (auxin)

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what are the two ways to clone plants

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  • micropropagation / cutting

- by taking a tissue of the plant and placing it in a agar to grow with the nutrients