Mitosis and Meiosis Crossword

a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring
are two pieces of DNA within a diploid organism which carry the same genes, one from each parental source
a mature haploid male or female germ cell which is able to unite with another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote
having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
the action or process of fertilizing an egg, female animal, or plant, involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote
containing two complete sets of chromosomes, one from each parent
a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, as in the production of gametes and plant spores
the exchange of genes between homologous chromosomes, resulting in a mixture of parental characteristics in offspring
a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth
the third phase of mitosis, during which the chromosome pairs separate and move toward opposite poles