Relacionar Columnas Meiosis Vocabulary Versión en línea Test your meiosis vocabulary por Leah DeMercurio 1 Nondisjunction 2 Zygote 3 Fertilization 4 Meiosis 5 Gene or Allele 6 Variation 7 Haploid 8 Gametes 9 Homologous chromosomes 10 Diploid 11 Crossing Over A set of one maternal and one paternal chromosome similar in size that pair up with each other inside a cell during meiosis; each carries the same gene The male gamete or ’sperm’, and the female gamete, ’egg’ or ’ovum’ are specialized sex cells, which fuse together to begin the formation of a zygote during a process called sexual reproduction The exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes during prophase I in meiosis. Contributes to genetic variation Different forms of the same gene such as flower color or eye color A cell that contains pairs of homologous chromosomes (2n) A cell that contains single set of chromosomes (n) Different forms of something The failure of homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids to separate properly during meiosis Cell division that results in haploid gametes cells A diploid cell resulting from the fusion of the sperm and egg Cells that contain half the total number of chromosomes for an organisms; sex cells