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WorksheetsMeiosis
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is meiosis?
a)
It is asexual reproduction
b)
It is sexual reproduction
2.
What is the difference of meiosis and mitosis?
a)
They are different because one is more efficient than the other
b)
They are different because on is safer than the other
c)
They are different because on is more genetically various than the other
d)
They are the same
3.
What is the difference between metaphase 1 and 2?
a)
They are the same
b)
Spindle fibers pull the chromosomes to opposite sides in 1 and not 2
c)
Metaphase 1 is known to be double file because entire chromosomes are aligned along the equator instead of chromatids
4.
What is something that happens in meiosis, and not in mitosis?
a)
Synapsis/crossing over occurs
b)
The cell is split into two cells
c)
There is no genetic variety
d)
Copying of DNA
5.
What is a source of genetic variation in meiosis?
a)
Asexual reproduction
b)
Split from one cell
c)
S phase
d)
Random fertiliztion
6.
Meiosis 2 is similar to mitosis because....
a)
Sister chromatids seperate
b)
Homologous chromosomes seperate
c)
DNA replication precedes the division
d)
Haploid cells are produced
7.
Homologous chromosomes.....
a)
Have identical genes
b)
Have genes for the same traits at the same locations
c)
Are found in gametes
d)
Separate in meiosis 2
8.
Asexual reproduction of a diploid organism would...
a)
Be impossible
b)
Involve meiosis
c)
produce identical offspring
d)
Show variation among sibiling offspring
9.
A cell with 22 autosomes and a Y chromosome would be.....
a)
A sperm
b)
A male somatic cell
c)
A male ovum
10.
What makes meiosis special?
a)
Genetic variation
b)
Random fertilization
c)
Possible mutations
d)
All of above
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