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    fuse, the result will be the complete genetic information of the offspring. We were given instructions and materials in order to conduct an experiment and make a model to show the process of meiosis. The thing is that the number of chromosomes is reduced in the process of meiosis, so how does the process of meiosis reduce the number of chromosomes in reproductive cells? For our experiment,…

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    mitosis or meiosis. For simple one-cell organisms, like amoebas, archaea and protozoa, single cell division, mitosis, is akin to reproduction. For multicellular organisms, meiosis produces four haploid daughter cells by undertaking a single round of DNA replication, shadowed by two more cellular divisions. In all, the principal purpose of cell division is the preservation and replication of the original cell 's genome, regardless of whether that cell division is through mitosis or meiosis.…

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    leptotene 
Bloom's Level: 1. Remember
Learning Outcome: 02.04.01 List and describe the phases of meiosis.
Section: 02.04
Topic: Meiosis
 30. The bivalent structure forms during which of the following? 
A. leptotene 
B. zygotene 
C. pachytene 
D. diplotene 
E. diakinesis 
Bloom's Level: 1. Remember
Learning Outcome: 02.04.01 List and describe the phases of meiosis.
Section: 02.04
Topic: Meiosis
 31. Which of the following represents the correct order of events during prophase I?…

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    organ and then the individual. We all have this question, why our cells are dividing constantly? Cells divide to replace old or damaged cells, and also living organism can grow and reproduce. There are two ways that cells can divide, mitosis and meiosis. These two methods has their own characteristics. Mitosis is how somatic cells divide (no reproductive cells). This cells made up most of the body tissues and organs such as the lungs, the skin, muscles…

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    when two haploid nuclei bud off of the hyphae. This diploid cell then undergoes meiosis and mitosis forming eight haploid cells called a tetrad. The cells develop within an ascospore, and a group of ascospores is an ascus. An perithecia contains the asci (Glase, 1995). S. fimicola have a unique feature in their meiotic process which easily lends to figuring out a gene-centromere distance in their chromosomes. During meiosis, the crossing over of genes occurs at any area between the chromosomes.…

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    what it does, seperate two alleles during meiosis. The third law is that “an allele pair gets segregated into two daughter cells during the second division of meiosis”. This would mean that during the second part of meiosis, an allele pair will always get seperated into two daugther cells. When it comes to Meiosis, one other word thatll come to head is Mitosis. These two both have a very important postition in genetics, but are compluety different. Meiosis is “In cell biology, mitosis is a part…

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    1. Explain how an enzyme works, and how a coenzyme or cofactors may be involved in an enzymatic reaction. An enzyme is a type of protein that is produced by living organism, that also speeds up a chemical reaction without actually being involved in the reaction itself. Reactions occur under mild conditions; enzymes also control the metabolism, by taking out nonspecific side reactions. Enzymes catalyze each step of the chemical reactions in a metabolic pathway. In order for this to happen, all…

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    Mitosis is a process of cellular division. What happens though when Mitosis (process of cellular division) goes wrong? You can get a disease from Mitosis going wrong, some very bad ones too. A widely known disease caused by cellular division going wrong is Cancer and Tumors. (1)Disrupted passage through mitosis often leads to chromosome missegregation and the production of aneuploidy progeny. Aneuploidy has long been seen as a frequent characteristic of cancer cells. Also Aneuploidy has been…

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    The stage primary spermatocytes divides to form two secondary spermatocytes then the secondary divides by meiosis 2 to produce two spermatids spermatocytes that eventually forms four spermatozoa nucleus undergoes condition in the sperm reserve in the food it produces motile male gametes. Two meiotic divisions meiosis 1 and II to produce haploid offsprings..The male cells produce sperms which are named germinal cells or primordial cells; these cells go phases…

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    Cell Division Process - spermatogonia (germ) cells undergo meiosis to produce sperm cells. Oogonia (germ) cells undergo meiosis to produce…

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