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Cell Division Study Guide
1. Which process is represented in the diagram below?
2. If the chromosome number in an egg cell nucleus of a corn plant is 10, then
what is the normal chromosome number in a a root epidermal cell of the
same corn plant?
3. Which is the correct sequence for the stages of mitotic cell division
represented by the diagrams below?
A
Telophase
B
Prophase
C
Anaphase
D
Metaphase
4. What stage of mitotic cell division is below? What does A indicate? What does
B indicate?
5. What is the advantage of sexual reproduction for a species? What type of cell
division is this?
6. Label the images below as sexual or asexual, and identify the process.
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7. Identify and describe the image below.
8. What is a zygote and from what cell division does it result?
9. Is a zygote haploid or diploid? Gamete?
10. Identify each type of cell division
11. Identify and describe each stage of mitosis in the figures below and sequence
(put them in order) them.
12. If 78 chromosomes exist in somatic cells of a dog, then how many
chromosomes exist in gametes? How do you figure this out?
13. Which of the following is not a somatic cell?
Skin, liver, nerve, sperm, stomach
14. Why is it necessary for meiosis?
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15. If the number of chromosomes in an egg cell of a pig is 19, then how many
chromosomes are in a pig’s stomach cells?
16. What are the purposes of mitosis?
17. What is the purpose of meiosis?
18. What does it mean to be diploid?
19. What is another way of writing diploid?
20. What does it mean to be haploid?
21. What is another way of writing haploid?
22. Where does meiosis occur?
23. Why is mitosis considered to be asexual and meiosis considered to be sexual?
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