Vocabulary
Process by which the cell cytoplasm divides.
What is Cytokinesis?
Meiosis occurs to produce _________.
What are Gametes?
How many rounds of cell division does Meiosis involve?
What is 2?
what does Diploid mean?
the number of chromosomes in daughter cells after mitosis, 2N
What do Mitosis and Meiosis both produce?
What are cells
Two matching paired chromosomes; one from your mother, one from your father.
What are Homologous Chromosomes?
In Mitosis, both parent and daughter cells are _______.
What are Diploid + identical Cells?
In humans, how many chromosomes does each new cell end up having when meiosis is complete?
What is 23?
What are the four main phases of Mitosis?
- Prophase - Metaphase - Anaphase - Telophase
What cell division process is involved in asexual reproduction, and which one is involved in sexual reproduction?
What are mitosis for asexual and meiosis for sexual
the middle region of the chromosome where chromatids and the spindle fibers attach.
What is the Centromere?
One half of a duplicated chromosome is a __________.
What is a chromatid?
When are homologous chromosomes divided?
What is meiosis I?
How many genetically identical daughter cells does Mitosis produce?
2 daughter cells
In humans, how many chromosomes does each new cell end up having when mitosis is complete?
How many does it have when meiosis is complete
46 mitosis
23 meiosis
The duplicated parts of a chromosome that remain attached (by the centromere).
What are Sister Chromatids?
In ________phase, a complete set of identical chromosomes have totally separated, are positioned at each pole of the cell and new nuclei start to form around them.
What is telophase?
Why are there two Meiosis divisions?
What is to ensure the correct number of chromosomes for reproduction?
How is Interphase connected to Mitosis?
What is it prepares the cell to divide and provides time for the duplication of organelles and for DNA replication.
The sperm has _________ as many chromosomes as a skin cell
What is half?
when you make an egg cell what are the 3 smaller not fully formed cells called?
Polar Bodies
The structures that pull on the spindle fibers that separate sister chromatids during mitosis or meiosis are called _______________
What are centrioles
What step does crossing over happen?
Prophase 1 meiosis
What happens to the chromosomes at the end of Telophase?
They loosen up into chromatin
What are 3 differences in the results of the cells between Mitosis and Meiosis?
What is mitosis results in diploid cells, Meiosis results in haploid cells, meiosis gametes, mitosis body cells,
meiosis sexual vs mitosis asexual