- How are haploid gametes formed?
- The organism's diploid germ-line stem cells undergo meiosis to createhaploid gametes (the spermatozoa for males and ova for females), which fertilize to form the zygote. The diploid zygote undergoes repeated cellular division by mitosis to grow into the organism.
- How does meiosis create genetic variation?
- Meiosis produces haploid gametes that are genetically different. This is due to two processes: independent assortment and crossover. Essentially, these processes shuffle alleles during gamete formation andcreate genetic variation. In addition, sexual reproduction randomly combines gametes from two different parents
- How do mitosis & Meiosis differ in terms of:
- Variation takes two different sex cells while mitosis takes different chromosomes
- # of Chromosomes 46
- # of Cells 2 and 3
- Variation takes two different sex cells while mitosis takes different chromosomes
- # of Chromosomes 46
- # of Cells 2 and 3