Biology 1002B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gamete, Chromosome Segregation, Endoplasmic Reticulum

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As long as eukaryotes require their daughter cells to be genetic copies of the parental cell, mitosis serves very well to divide the dna equally and precisely. Meiosis, produces daughter nuclei that are different in that they have one- half the number of chromosomes the parental nucleus had. Chromosomes are the genetic units divided by mitosis. In all eukaryotes, the hereditary information of the nucleus is distributed among several linear, double-stranded dna molecules. Each chromosome in a cell is composed of one of these dna molecules, along with its associated proteins. Most eukaryotes have two copies of each type of chromosome in their nuclei, and their chromosome is said to be diploid, or 2n. Other eukaryotes (most microorganisms), may have only one copy of each type of chromosome in their nucleus, so their chromosome complement is said to be haploid, or n. The number of chromosome sets is called the ploidy of a cell or species.

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