BIOL 111 Lecture : Week11.2.docx

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11. 2: creating variation through meiosis and uniting gametes. Examples of gametes in animals include sperm and eggs. Gametes are also called sex cells because their role is sexual reproduction. All other types of cells in our body are somatic cells (somatic = body belonging). All somatic cells have two copies of each chromosome. Diploid = 2 copies of each chromosome (2n); one copy came from each of the organism"s parents. Haploid = 1 copy of each chromosome (n). The terms diploid or haploid are adjectives that depict how many copies of dna (chromosomes) an individual has. Our somatic cells are diploid whereas our reproductive cells (gametes or sex cells) are haploid. For haploid cells, you write n = 23 (we have 23 unique chromosomes) whatever the total number of chromosomes is. Whether or not the chromosomes are sister chromotids or not does not matter when we are determining if the cell is haploid or diploid.

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