Sexual reproduction

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Sexual reproduction

the process in which 2 parent organisms create offspring with genetically unique composition

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What are the male gonads?

Testes/testicles

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What are the female gonads?

ovaries

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What does the male testes/testicles produce?

Sperm and testosterone

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What does the female ovaries produce?

Eggs and estrogen

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What is another name for gametes?

sex cells (egg & sperm)

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Sperm cells

Male sex cells, microscopic, tail (allowed the sperm to move), neck (where the mitochondria is located) and head (where the nucleus is located)

<p>Male sex cells, microscopic, tail (allowed the sperm to move), neck (where the mitochondria is located) and head (where the nucleus is located)</p>
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Egg cells

Female sex cells, round, non-motile, nucleus contains yolk, ~1 mm diameter in humans

<p>Female sex cells, round, non-motile, nucleus contains yolk, ~1 mm diameter in humans </p>
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Hermaphrodites

usually slow moving organisms, produce both sperm and egg cells, cannot self fertilize

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Gametogenesis

process of gametes forming in gonads

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Oogenesis

specific gametogenesis where ovaries produce eggs

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Spermatogenesis

specific gametogenesis where testes produce sperm

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Polar body

small byproduct(s) that comes off of an oocyte during meiotic division (during oogenesis)

<p>small byproduct(s) that comes off of an oocyte during meiotic division (during oogenesis) </p>
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Fertilization

process where a sperm cell and egg cell unite to form a single cell (zygote)

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Zygote

fertilized egg/ the single cell formed after fertilization

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Monoploid

one set of unpaired chromosomes

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diploid

two complete set of chromosomes, one from each parent

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external fertilization

egg fertilized in environment outside of the female body, can only occur in aquatic environments

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Internal fertilization

occurs inside body of a female, mostly mammals

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What is the difference between meiosis and mitosis

Meiosis is only used to make sperm and eggs