Meiosis Lesson

Open Ended

What are two differences between meiosis and mitosis?

Multiple Choice

During meiosis, if an organism has 10 chromosomes, how many will the new daughter cells have?

• 10

• 8

• 5

• 2

Multiple Choice

CROSSING OVER INCREASES

• LIFE SPAN

• GENETIC VARIATION

• THE NUMBER OF OFF-SPRING

• ALL ARE TRUE

Multiple Select

Check all of the following that DO occur during Telophase I and cytokinesis.

• The separated homologous chromosomes are at opposite poles of the cell.

• The cell divides in two.

• The chromosomes do not uncoil, since they are getting ready for Meiosis II.

• Sister chromatids are pulled away from each other.

Multiple Choice

Timmy fell off his skateboard and scraped his knee. Which cell process is going to be used to heal the wound?

• Mitosis

• Meiosis

• The wound would not heal

• Cell diffusion

Multiple Choice

The process of crossing over occurs in what phase of meiosis?

• anaphase 1
• prophase 1
• prophase 2
• telophase 1

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best definition for MEIOSIS?

• the process of two haploid cells uniting

• the counting of chromosomes within a diploid cell

• a two-step process that reduces the number of chromosomes in half such that there is only one copy of all the chromosomes

• the equational division of a cell into two identical copies