Name
Class
Date
Skills Worksheet
Vocabulary Review
Meiosis and Sexual Reproduction
Using the clues below and the word bank, complete the crossword
puzzle.
ACROSS
6. gamete-making process that happens in male reproductive organs
7. the kind of reproduction in which two parents form haploid cells
that join to make offspring.
9. female gamete
11. happens during prophase I of meiosis
12. a haploid plant reproductive cell made by meiosis
13. form of cell division that halves the number of chromosomes
14. This is the kind of assortment that homologous chromosomes
undergo during meiosis.
DOWN
1. the haploid phase of a plant that makes gametes by mitosis
2. the process in most animals that makes diploid zygotes.
3. an individual produced by asexual reproduction
4. the kind of reproduction in which a single parent passes copies of
all its genes to its offspring
5. the name for the cycle that goes from one generation to the next
7. male gametes
8. diploid phase of a plant that makes spores
10. happens in the ovaries
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Name
Class
Date
Vocabulary Review continued
WORD BANK FOR CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
crossing-over
sexual
independent
spermatogenesis
meiosis
spore
ovum
1
2
DOWN
asexual
life
clone
oogenesis
fertilization
sperm
gametophyte
sporophyte
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
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