NATS 1675 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fetus, Xx Male Syndrome, Heredity
21 Nov 2017
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Definitions: mitosis a kind of cell division in which two identical cells are produced. It is used as one method of reproduction for single celled microorganisms such as protests and bacteria. It is also the type of cell division that occurs in multicellular organisms for growth, repair and replacement: meiosis a process of cell division by which gametes containing half the normal number of chromosomes are produced. Meiosis is also called reduction division: gametes sex cells, e. g. , egg cells, sperm cells, pollen grains, chromosome a strand of dna and protein found in the nucleus of a cell; carries genetic information. In humans there are 46 chromosomes or 23 pairs: chromosomes: string of beads on pearls, karyotypes: the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a. 2016-02-07 14:32: gene functional unit of heredity; the part of the chromosome that transmits a particular hereditary trait.
