ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Chromosome, Ploidy, Nucleic Acid Sequence
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While eukaryotic cells (found in complex organisms) have a nucleus and can be unicellular/multicellular: within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells are chromosomes, chromosome: double stranded dna molecule that contains hereditary information, mitosis: cellular division resulting in two identical daughter cells with the same number of chromosome as parent cell (process which eukaryotic cell duplicate itself) (cid:224) how cells make copies of themselves, meiosis: cellular division resulting in each daughter cell receiving half the amount of dna as the parent cells (occurs during formation of egg/sperm cells in mammals) (cid:224) production of sex cells. Results in the formation of haploid cells (cid:224) determines an organism"s sex (sex cells = gamets) Dna: the blueprint to life: double stranded helix + used to store genetic information that codes for the synthesis of proteins, protein: large molecule composed of a specific sequence of amino acids, nucleotide: building blocks of dna, consisting of a base, sugar and phosphate group, four bases:
