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Biology Review
Mitosis & Meiosis
Nelson
1. How many chromosomes do babies have?
2. Give the definition of mitosis.
3. Are babies haploid or diploid?
4. Give the definition of meiosis.
5. Give the order of mitosis.
6. What is the definition for diploid?
7. Draw a tetrad.
8. (skip) What does 2N and N stand for?
9. What is a tetrad? What phase in meiosis do tetrads form in?
10. What is crossing over? What phase does crossing-over happen in?
11. How is part one of Meiosis different from Mitosis?
12. What does crossing-over do to the genetic makeup of the human population?
13. Which part of meiosis is more like mitosis?
14. What are the cells called that do not participate in reproduction called?
15. What are sex cells called?
16. What is the period that prepares for mitosis called?
17. Name 2 differences between meiosis and mitosis.
20. What is the process (not phase) by which a cell’s cytoplasm divides to form two distinct cells?
21. What is the structure that holds together each pair of chromatids?
22. What is a chromosome?
23. What is the term for uncontrolled cell division?
24. How does a multicellular organism grow in size?
25. If a parent cell, which has 10 chromosomes, divides, how many chromosomes will each daughter cell
have during mitosis? What if it were meiosis?
28. Give the order of meiosis.
29. Draw and label the phases and structures of mitosis.
30. Name and describe three reasons that cells do not grow too large.
31. Draw and label the cell cycle.