Term 3 Reproduction

Making more copies of the original organism, they are identical clones

Reproduction including two individuals, creates variation in offspring Parents reproductive cells are called GAMETES that join together to form offspring - the egg and the sperm

Cell division for growth and repair 5 stages in mitosis Chromosomes double and stay joined Cells split into two identical diploid cells Diploid cells also called daughter cells Splitting of the cells is calls cytokinesis or cell cleavage

Cell division for producing gametes, occurs in the testis and ovaries and makes cells with half the original chromosomes

The way that bacteria reproduce, very similar to mitotis

The way that single felled called fungi like yeast reproduce

An underground nutrient storage that some plants use

Like tubers except grows exactly next to the parent plant system

The name of the process when seeds start to grow

Hormones

Some plants are able to send out a shoot that touches the ground and grows its own roots.

Some organisms can lay eggs that will hatch into identical copies of the parent organism

When the first leaves and the stem appears above the soil, this is called seeding

The seeding will continue to grow into a full mature plant with leaves,roots and stems

The mature plant will grow flowers. Through pollination, the flowers will produce seeds

Is the male part of the plant

The female part of the plant

When the pollen grain gets to the stigma of the flower.

Contains urine, not involved in sexual reproduction

Becomes erect during arousal enabling it to enter the vagina

The tube the sperm moves through to get to the urethra

Responsible for making some of the components of semen

Produce males gemetes, sperm through meiosis

Houses testis, keeps the temperature right for making sperm