ANT203H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Punnett Square, Miscarriage, Meiosis
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Topic 1: a review of the molecular basis of life: dna, rna, proteins, and how the information stored in dna is transmitted: Topic 2: how the genetic information is transmitted from generation to generation: meiosis in the sex cells, and menellian inheritance. Topic 3: population genetics: mutation, gene flow. Topic 2: how the genetic information is transmitted from generation to generation. In organisms with sexual reproduction, a new individual is formed by the union of two gametes. The process of reduction of the number of chromosomes happens only in the sex cells (cells producing gametes), during a process known as meiosis. You should know the details of meiosis, and the differences between meiosis and mitosis. Meiosis is fundamental to understand inheritance and evolution. Mitosis occurs in somatic cells; meiosis in germ cells. Mitosis has one round of division; meiosis two. Homologous chromosomes do not pair and recombine during mitosis; they do in meiosis.
