Meiosis

Question 1

What is meiosis?

Answer 1

meiosis is a cell division process that creates gametes (sex cells), it halves the chromosome number from diploid (2N, 46 chromosomes) to haploid (n, 23 chromosomes), which takes 23 from each parent sperm and egg

Question 2

Does meiosis turn from a diploid to haploid (creating 4 different daughter cells)?

Answer 2

Meiosis starts with a diploid cell and ends with four haploid cells, all genetically different.

Question 3

How doe genetic variation happen in meiosis?

Answer 3

the two main ways that genetic variation happens is crossing over and independent assortment

Question 4

What is crossing over?

Answer 4

happens early in meiosis, homologous chromosomes pair up and swap sections of DNA, this mixes genes from each parent creating new combinations of traits (example

Question 5

What is independent assortment?

Answer 5

chromosomes line up randomly before being separated, each gamete gets a random mix of maternal and paternal chromosomes

Question 6

What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis?

Answer 6

Mitosis is a type of cell division where a parent cell divides into two identical daughter cells. Meiosis is a process where a single cell divides twice, producing four daughter cells that contain half the original amount of genetic information.