AP biology meiosis quiz

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

• 20
• 40
• 80
• 160

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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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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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Crossing over helps promote 

• male genotype
• genetic variation
• DNA replication
• mitosis

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The purpose of meiosis is to form ________ cells.

• body
• sex
• somatic
• brain

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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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If the Diploid number of Carrots is 18, the haploid number is

• 18
• 9
• 27
• 36

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How many daughter cells are produced from meiosis ?

• 10
• 6
• 4
• 2

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Process needed for growth and injury repair

• Mitosis
• Meiosis
• Both Mitosis and Meiosis

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The symbol for diploid is...

• N
• 2N