Friday, March 5, 2021. Day 6

Do Now:

To Be Completed:

Today’s Lesson:

Finish Sexual reproduction Notes:

Vocabulary:

Fertilization - joining of egg an sperm

  • (in humans results in 23 pairs of chromosomes)

Zygote - fertilized egg

  • able to grow through mitosis

Meiosis - cell division process that makes sex cells

  • produces haploid cells with random 1/2 of the chromosomes

  • Each sex cell is unique - never duplicates

  • insures all offspring are unique

Diploid - body cells with pairs of chromosomes

Haploid - sex cells with random 1/2 of the chromosomes

Advantages of Sexual reproduction

  • Increased genetic diversity

  • makes diverse organisms

  • differences may be an advantage that increases survival

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Quiz Monday - Sexual Reproduction, Meiosis (and Mitosis)

  • Please review your notes.

  • No need to turn them in, but make sure they are complete.

Corpse Flower in GC due Sunday Midnight.