Vocabulary
Mitosis & Meiosis
Meiosis
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Process by which the cell cytoplasm divides.
What is Cytokinesis?
100
Meiosis occurs to produce _________.
What are Gametes?
100
How many rounds of cell division does Meiosis involve?
What is 2?
100
The correct order of the phases of mitosis.
What is Prophase - Metaphase - Anaphase - Telophase?
100
This process creates genetically unique cells.
What is meiosis?
100
The sperm has _________ as many chromosomes as a skin cell at the end of meiosis.
What is half?
200
Two separate chromosomes; one from your mother, one from your father.
What are Homologous Chromosomes?
200
In Mitosis, both parent and daughter cells are _______.
What are Diploid Cells?
200
Random orientation of pairs of homologous chromosomes during metaphase I
What is independent assortment?
200
This is the job or function of mitosis.
What is cell division, repair & growth?
200
What do Mitosis and Meiosis both produce?
What are cells
200
The stage in which chromosomes replicate themselves
What is interphase
300
The duplicated chromosomes that remain attached (by the centromere).
What are Sister Chromatids?
300
One half of a duplicated chromosome is a __________.
What is a chromatid?
300
In humans, how many chromosomes does each new cell end up having when meiosis is complete?
What is 23?
300
This type of cell undergoes mitosis.
What are somatic cells?
300
These structures become tightly packed during cell division.
What are chromosomes?
300
The cell elongates, and the chromosomes move toward the poles during this stage.
What is anaphase
400
A zygote with 45 chromosomes would exhibit this condition caused by nondisjunction.
What is monosomy?
400
In the ________ phase of mitosis, a complete set of identical chromosomes is positioned at each pole of the cell.
What is telophase?
400
Homologous chromosomes are divided during this phase.
What is meiosis I?
400
Which phase is being represented in the image below? 
What is prophase?
400
In humans, the number of chromosomes that each new cell has when mitosis is complete.
What are 23 pairs or 46 individual chromosomes?
400
This process produces only one viable gamete.
What is oogenesis?
500
Spread of cancer cells beyond original site.
What is metastasis?
500
Crossing over and independent assortment during meiosis result in this outcome.
What genetic diversity?
500
What is crossing over?
500
This is what one round of mitosis would produce.
What are 2 genetically identical daughter cells?
500
Haploid cells mean what
What is half the amount of genetic information?
500
This error in meiosis results in gametes with abnormal chromosome numbers.
What is nondisjunction?