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 Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Holt Biology 37 Meiosis and Sexual Reproduction 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 Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Holt Biology 38 Meiosis and Sexual Reproduction