Biology 1225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cell Membrane, Sporophyte, Cell Plate

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The fusion of 2 gametes create a single fertilized zygote as the beginning of an organism"s life cycle. The cell must go through several thousand rounds of cell division to produce the large population of cells needed to construct the body of a multicellular organism. Throughout this process of cell division the genetic material must be replicated, condensed and portioned into daughter cells. This type of cell division is called mitosis. For sexually reproducing organisms, the gametes mentioned above are created in gonads by a specialized type of cell division that must reduce the amount of genetic material by half this is. Our body (somatic cells) are diploid, our gametes are haploid. Know fig 8. 5 and fig 8. 13 it is essential to understand meiosis and mitosis before working on inheritance. Humans inherit 23 chromosomes from each parent so that we end up with 2 copies of each.

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