LS - 4.4 Chromosomes and Inheritance

Walter Sutton worked with 

• rabbits
• pea plants
• grasshoppers
• macaroni

Mitosis involves this many divisions of the nucleus.

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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Meiosis involves this many divisions of the nucleus.

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The division process that cells undergo to repair or replace damage or to reproduce exact copies is called 

• mitosis
• meiosis
• replication
• synthesis

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Meiosis produces

• sex cells 
• clone cells
• prison cells 
• blood cells

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Each chromosome contains two identical

• chromatids
• nuclei
• daughter cells
• cycles

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In the first division of meiosis, the ___ pairs line up, then separate.

• chromosome
• nuclei
• centriole
• spindle fibers

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Body cells of humans have ___ PAIRS of chromosomes

• 46
• 23
• 24
• 12

After meiosis, sex cells have ___ number of chromosomes as body cells

• the same
• half of the 
• a quarter of the
• more than the

Genes are passed from parents to offspring on 

• DNA
• duplicated genes
• chromosomes
• little boats

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