Relier Pairs Meiosis Vocabulary Version en ligne Test your meiosis vocabulary par Leah DeMercurio 1 Crossing Over 2 Meiosis 3 Haploid 4 Nondisjunction 5 Diploid 6 Homologous chromosomes 7 Gametes 8 Zygote 9 Fertilization 10 Gene or Allele 11 Variation Different forms of the same gene such as flower color or eye color A set of one maternal and one paternal chromosome similar in size that pair up with each other inside a cell during meiosis; each carries the same gene Cells that contain half the total number of chromosomes for an organisms; sex cells Different forms of something The male gamete or ’sperm’, and the female gamete, ’egg’ or ’ovum’ are specialized sex cells, which fuse together to begin the formation of a zygote during a process called sexual reproduction A cell that contains pairs of homologous chromosomes (2n) Cell division that results in haploid gametes cells The exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes during prophase I in meiosis. Contributes to genetic variation The failure of homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids to separate properly during meiosis A diploid cell resulting from the fusion of the sperm and egg A cell that contains single set of chromosomes (n)
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