Chapter 10: Preparing For Sexual Reproduction

5. A process, occurring during meiosis, which homologous chromosomes exchanged reciprocal portions of themselves.
7. The diploid cells that are the starting female cells in gamete(egg) production.
8. The repeating series of steps that occur in the reproduction of an organism.
10. Random distribution of homologous chromosomes pairs on differing sides of the Metaphase Plate during meiosis.
14. A diploid cell produced in females that may mature into an egg, initially by giving rise to haploid secondary oocytes.
15. Diploid cells that are the starting cells in sperm production in males. Reproductive stem cells in which dividing each of them produces one primary spermatocyte and spermatogonium.
16. A means of reproduction in which the nuclei of the reproductive cells from two separate organisms fuse to produce offspring.
17. A haploid reproductive cell. (sperm & egg).

1. A diploid cell in a male that will undergo meiosis to produce haploid secondary spermatocytes.
2. Reproduction that occurs without the union of 2 reproductive cells. Offspring identical to their parent's organism.
3. A process in which a single diploid cell divides to produce four haploid reproductive cells.
4. Possessing two sets of chromosomes.
6. Nonfunctional cell produced during meiosis in females.
9. Living cell, The condition of being diploid, of having two sets of chromosomes.
11. Living cell, the condition of being haploid, of having a single set of chromosomes.
12. The grouping formed by the linkage of two homologous chromosomes in prophase I of meiosis.
13. Possessing a single set of chromosomes.