BIOS-115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Single Parent, Mitosis, Down Syndrome

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Offspring identical to each other and parent: sexual reproduction. Offspring are similar to each other and parents. Why do diploid organisms need to have specialized sex cells: sex cells (gametes: sperm or egg) allow traits to be combined from two organisms, gametes have only one of each chromosome, requires special cell division: meiosis. Independent assortment can be different for each chromosome (2)23 > 8 million different possible gametes: humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a couple, possible unique offspring= (8 million) x (8 million) = (64,000,000,000,000) Greater amount of variety: exchange of equivalent sections between homologous chromosomes, occurs at random locations along chromosome, creates new versions of chromosomes. Meiosis i: prophase i, prometaphase i, metaphase i, anaphase i, telophase i. Meiosis ii: prophase ii, prometaphase i, metaphase ii, anaphase ii, telophase ii. Some key points: no dna replication between meiosis i and meiosis ii, meiosis ii is almost identical to mitosis.

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