ch 9 b

decade

The idea that living things can come from nonliving things.

landslide

The chemical inside cells that stores information about an organism.

heroics

A characteristic of an organism.

solution

The range of differences among the individuals in a population.

fraud

A rod-shaped structure that contains DNA and is found in the nucleus of a cell.

emotion

The process that results in two cells identical to the parent cell.

mobile

A sex cell, such as sperm or egg.

assembly line

The male sex organ that produces sperm cells. Plural is testes.

suburb

The process that results in sex cells.

energetic

The type of fertilization that occurs outside the female’s body.

improvise

The type of fertilization that occurs inside the female’s body.

spiritual

The process of cells taking on different jobs in the body.

composer

An early stage in the development of an organism.

symphone

A young insect that resembles the adult.

communist

A mammal that gives birth to young that are very undeveloped.

prohibition

A tissue that provides the embryo with food and oxygen from its mother’s body.

bootlegger

An organ in most female mammals that holds and protects an embryo.

speakeasy

The period of development of a mammal, from fertilization until birth.

solo

The male organ that delivers sperm to the female body.

stock market

The sac that holds the testes.

soup house

The tubelike canal in the female body through which sperm enter the body.

generation

A Tube through which eggs pass from an ovary to the uterus.

association

The process of releasing an egg from an ovary.