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| a complete change of form, structure, or substance |
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| the production of new organisms without two different parents |
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| when multicellular organisms reproduce by the joining of cells from two different individuals |
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| a fertilized egg that receives chromosomes from each parent |
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reproductive cells that contain only half the number of chromosomes of body cells |
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| a characteristic pass from parents to their offspring |
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| a trait that appears even if an organism has only one factor for the trait |
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| a trait that appears only if an organism has two factors for the trait |
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| the part of a chromosome that contains the DNA code for an inherited trait |
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| a behavior that an organism inherits |
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| – a behavior that an animal acquires through experience |
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| all the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism |
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