Mitosis & Meiosis

Fruit fly body cells have 8 chromosomes. After mitosis, you would expect a resulting fruit fly daughter cell to have ...

• 16 chromosomes.
• 46 chromosomes.
• 8 chromosomes.
• 4 chromosomes.

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What process does a multi-cellular organism use to replace its damaged body cells?

• mitosis
• meiosis
• replication
• transcription

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DNA is replicated during the ______ phase of the cell cycle.

• G₁
• Synthesis
• G₂
• G₀

Structure C is pointing to one ____. 

• sister chromatid
• chromosome
• centromere
• gene

What phase of mitosis is shown in the picture?

• Prophase
• Anaphase
• Telophase
• Metaphase

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What kind of cells are made in MEIOSIS?

• Haploid Gametes

• Diploid Somatic Cells

• Skin Cells

• Liver Cells

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When an area of a chromatid is exchanged with the matching area on a chromatid of its homologous chromosome, _________________ occurs

• crossing over
• mutagenesis
• hybridization
• fertilization

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What causes genetic variation in meiosis?

• chromosomes lining up
• crossing over of chromosomes
• separation of chromosomes
• chromosomes pulling apart

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What process, and which type of resulting cells are represented?

• mitosis, gametes
• mitosis, body cells
• meiosis, gametes
• meiosis, body cells

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Meiosis makes sperm and egg cells. In humans, sperm and egg cells each have _____ chromosomes. Therefore a fertilized human egg cell (sperm and egg cell combined) would create a cell with _____ chromosomes.

• 23, 46
• 46, 23
• 2, 4
• 50, 100

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