Mitosis and meiosis are both important biological processes that happen within eukaryotic cells. These two processes are slightly different from one another‚ but have a lot of similarities. Before each of these processes can be performed‚ the cell first has to go through interphase. Interphase is considered the primer for mitosis or meiosis and consists of: G1‚ S‚ and G2 phases. These phases prepare the cell for either mitosis or meiosis by causing the cell to grow‚ copy the DNA‚ and copy the cell’s
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Julie Lake November 8‚ 2012 BIO 111‚ C11- Online Villalpando‚ Shawn Lab 8 Title: Mitosis and Meiosis Exercise 1: Mitosis in Animal and Plant Cells Questions: A.) What is the purpose of mitosis? The purpose of mitosis is to create or produce more cells for a living organism. Mitosis occurs when genetic substance in the nucleus divides or separates in order to create more cells. Cytokinesis normally occurs next and the single cell develops into two separate cells. This same process continues
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Normal cell division meiosis and gamete production via meiosis. Explain why the process of mitosis and meiosis are both important to a living organism. When would an organism need to undergo the process of mitosis? Meiosis? What would happen if meiosis did not occur? Mitosis is the cell process of growth and division whereas meiosis is the process of developing reproductive cells. The sperm and egg are critical components for almost all living organisms. Every living organism begins with one
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through mitosis resulting in diploid‚ identical cells and meiosis provides for genetic variability along with haploid daughter cells‚ gametes‚ or sex cells. Most of the cells observed on the root tip were in interphase. Table 3.1 helped analyze the number of cells that are going through each phase of the cell cycle and helped estimate the amount of time it took for each cell to complete that phase. Table 3.2 compared and contrasted mitosis and meiosis. Conclusion: There are five stages in Mitosis‚ which
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49) The cells grow and divide over and over again‚ and during this process they begin to specialize. A rabbit‚ an elephant‚ an oak‚ or a human being finally develops from a single cell. There are two main types of cell division: (1) mitosis and (2) meiosis. (Balls 34) Most cells are produced by a process called mitosis. In mitosis‚ a cell divides and forms two identical daughter cells. (Prescott 102) Each daughter cell then doubles in size and becomes capable of dividing. Most one-celled plants and
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mitosis and meiosis. Many people often get confused with the two about their functions. They both serve as mechanisms for cell division. However‚ quite significantly‚ they are very much different in fact and occur in different situations. Mitosis and meiosis take place in different places. This is one of the first major differences between the two. Mitosis takes place within somatic cells (cells that make up the body)‚ while meiosis takes place within gamete cells (sex cells). As such‚ meiosis produces
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Mitosis and meiosis are the means by which reproduction takes place. Mitosis creates an exact duplicate of cell so that old cells can be replaced‚ such as in skin‚ hair‚ and bones. Meiosis allows a cell to unite one half of its genetic makeup with a cell from another partner to create an entirely new organism. Mitosis Mitosis is the process by which two daughter cells are formed‚ each containing a complete set of chromosomes. Mitosis is the process by which an organism creates new cells‚ such
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ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION HUMAN BIOLOGY Explaining the role of mitosis & meiosis IN GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION Table of Content Page Number Cell division 1 Why do we need cell division? 1 Chromosomes 1 What is a chromosome? 1 The Cell Cycle 2 Process of Mitosis 3 What is Mitosis? 3 Stages of Mitosis 3 Interphase 3 Prophase 4 Prometaphase 5 Metaphase
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Meiosis is the process in sexually reproducing organisms where cells divide. The cells produced during meiosis have half the chromosome number as the original cell. There are two cell divisions in meiosis‚ meiosis l and meiosis ll. These cell divisions produce 4 hapolid daughter cells. Haploid cells contain only one set of chromosomes‚ which is written as n. Meiosis consists of nine phases. In meiosis the interphase l the chromosomes replicate and the centrosome duplicates in one diploid cell
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5. List one way mitosis and meiosis are similar. One way mitosis and meiosis are similar are that they are both types of cell division‚ and both produce new cells. They can do this process by going through the same exact stages which are known as prophase‚ metaphase‚ anaphase‚ and telophase‚ except mitosis goes through the phases once and meiosis does so twice. 6. List three ways mitosis and meiosis are different.
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