Match the following: 1. Small objects that revolve around the sun, many of them between Mars and Jupiter.

Comet

2. In a planet’s orbit, it is the point closest to the sun

Aphelion

3. Has a cloudy dust tail that points away from the sun

Asteroid

4. Have similarities to earth

Terrestrial Planets

5. In a planet’s orbit, it is the point farthest from the sun

Venus

6. The morning star

Perihelion

Which statement is not an accurate description of meiosis? a) meiosis produces offspring that are genetically diverse. b) meiosis produces offspring that are identical to the parent. c) in sexual reproduction half of the genetic material comes from the father (sperm) and half of the genetic material comes from the mother (egg). d) meiosis decreases the number of chromosomes by half so that when a sperm fertilizes an egg, the resulting zygote has the correct number of chromosomes.