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Biology Study
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- 1cellmicroscopic unit of living matter.
- 2chromosomelocated inside the cell, carries hereditary information from one generation to the next.
- 3genea piece of DNA on a chromosome.
- 4alleledifferent forms of a gene.
- 5DNAgenetic information carried in the molecule.
- 6genetic codethe genetic information inside the DNA.
- 7genetic engineeringdeliberate modification of the characteristic of an organism.
- 8genotypegenetic makeup.
- 9phenotypephysical appearance.
- 10mutationchanging the structure of a gene.
- 11mitosisa type of cell division which results in the daughter cells having the same number and kind of chromosomes as parent cells.
- 12meiosisa type of cell division which results in four daughter cells which have half the number of chromosomes as parent cells.
- 13gametea mature haploid germ cell which has the ability to unite with another cell of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote.
- 14sexual reproductionin which male and female cells join together and combine their genetic information to form a new cell, called a zygote.
- 15eggthe female reproductive cell in animals and plants; an ovum.
- 16ova
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