How did our lives start off? We know that we were able to grow from a zygote because of the cell cycle and mitosis, but what happened before that? Well, the very beginning stages of our lives starts with fertilization. In fertilization, reproductive cells, sperm and egg, fuse together. These reproductive cells carry half of their genetic information, so when they 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,
