Biology 1001A Chapter Notes - Chapter Cycle 2: Sister Chromatids, Allele, Kinetochore

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Eukaryotes require their daughter cells to be genetic copies of the parental cell, mitosis is the process of dividing replicated dna equally and precisely; for asexual organisms. For sexually producing organisms, the cell division process is called meiosis; producing some cells that are genetically different from the parent cells (1/2 of the number of chromosomes the parental nucleus had. Most eukaryotes have two copies of each type of chromosome in their nuclei (diploid or. Other eukaryotes, mostly microorganisms, may have only one copy of each type of chromosome in their nucleus (haploid or n). The number of chromosome sets is called the ploidy of a cell or species. Before a cell divides in mitosis, duplication of each chromosome produces two identical copies of each chromosome called sister chromatids (held together tightly by cohesion). Dna replication increases dna content but not chromosome number. Chromosomes become replicated but the number of them does not increase.

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