| A | B |
|---|
| budding | a type of asexual reproducton-offspring lokks exactly like the parent--offspring grows off the parent cell |
| asexual reproduction | reproduction does not involve a sperm and egg--one parent |
| binary fission | simple cell division |
| cell cycle | the different stages cellls pass through as they go through their life cycle |
| chromsomes | structures that contain the DNA |
| homologous chromsomes | pairs of similar chromosomes |
| mitosis | duplication division --ensures that each new cell receives a copy of each chromosome--produces two daughter cells |
| chromatids | the two copies of the chromsomes |
| cytokinesis | division of the cytoplasm |
| centromere | holds chromatids together |
