Topic 4-Reproduction and Development

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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The process by which the nuclear material is divided equally between two new cells

• mitosis
• cancer
• spindle
• centromere

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Structure (a) is a ____.

• chromosome
• chromatid
• centromere

What would happen if the cell membrane did not successfully complete this process

• 2 cells with 2 sets of DNA

• 1 cell with 2 sets of DNA

• 2 cells with 1 set of DNA

• 1 cell with 1 set of DNA

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How many chromosomes are normally found in human body cells?

• 46

• 23

• 26

• 44

What is it called when a sperm and egg meet?

• meiosis
• fertilization
• cell division
• mitosis

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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Which process and type of resulting cells are represented?

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

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If a body cell in a butterfly contains 24 chromosomes, a butterfly egg would contain

• 3

• 6

• 12

• 24

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A male shark has 40 chromosomes in each of its sex cells. How many would be present in its body cells?

• 20

• 40

• 80

• 160