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Chp 2-2
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6th Grade
11/10/2010

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What is Mitosis?

Definition
The process by which a cell produces 2 new IDENTICAL nuclei.
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Organisms _____ old cells and _______ cuts using ________ and ________.
Definition
Replace, Repair, Mtosis, and Cell Division  
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Plants grow bigger by making new cells at its ______ and ________.
Definition
Roots and Shoots
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What is asexual reproduction ?
Definition
reproduction by ONE parent 
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What is sexual reproduction ? 
Definition
reproduction by two parents
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What is a sex cell ?
Definition
a type of cell ONLY produced by an organism that reproduces sexually
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What is the sex cell that the male and the female produces ? 
Definition
a sperm cell,[male], and a egg cell,[female] 
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What is meiosis?
Definition
the process by which sex cells form
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What is fertilization?
Definition
it is the joining of a sperm and a egg cell during sexual reproduction
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When a sperm and an egg cell join, they form a cell called a ________. 
Definition
Zygote
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There are 2 types of fertilization, what are they?
Definition
there is the one when the zygote is fertilized in the mother and then born live, and theres one where they still are ferilized in the mother and then laid into a nest
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What are the reprductive parts of a plant?
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the stamen,[which has the pollen holding the sperm cells] and the pistil [which has the egg cells] 
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In sexual reproduction why arent the offspring like the parents?
Definition
this is because, they only get half of the chromosomes from each parent
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In asexual reproduction, why are the offspring like there parents? 
Definition
this is so because, there is only one parent to get the chromosomes from
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