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 chemotherapy | treatment for cancer in which drugs are administered to disrupt cell division of the cancer cells |
| somatic cell | any cell in a multicellular organism except a sperm or egg cell or a cell that developed into a sperm or egg |
| karyotype | a picture of the metaphase chromosomes of a cell, arranged by size and centromere position |
| homologous chromosomes | the two chromosomes that make up a matched pair in a diploid cell. one homologous chromosome is inherited from the organism's father, the other from the mother |
| sex chromosome | a chromosome that determines whether an individual is male or female |
| autosome | a chromosome not directly involved in determining the sex of an organism |
| life cycle | the entire sequence of stages in the life of an organism, from the adults of one generation to the adults of the next |
| diploid | containing 2 sets of chromosomes (homologous pairs) in each cell, one set inherited from each parent; a 2n cell |
| gamete | a sex cell; a haploid egg or sperm |
| haploid | containing a single set of chromosomes; a 1n cell |
| fertilization | the union of the nucleus of a sperm cell with the nucleus of an egg cell, producing a zygote |
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