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
Quiz Monday - Sexual Reproduction, Meiosis (and Mitosis)
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