Describe the key events of meiosis that explainMendel’s first and second laws.

Q: Ch. 22-2 In animals, meiosis of germ cells produces gametes. Some plant cells also undergo meiosis,…

A: Plants are multicellular, photosynthetic eukaryotes. These are evolved from unicellular alga that…

Q: Using your knowledge of meiosis, explain why Drosophila progeny remain diploid? (2n=8)

A: The indirect process of cell division in which the chromosomes of parent cells divide once but…

Q: that a gamete underwent meiotic non-disjunction. Explain two possible outcomes for the zygote that…

A: In normal anaphase that occurs during the cell division, sister chromatids are pulled by…

Q: Very rarely, one member of a pair of identical (monozygotic) twins will have Turner syndrome (XO)…

A: A chromosomal disorder in which a female is born with only one X chromosome leading to developmental…

Q: Explain how Mendelssohn laws are related to meiosis

A: Gregor Mendel was a nineteenth century Moravian priest who showed that the inheritance of genes…

Q: If you observed a dicentric bridge at meiosis, what rearrangement would you predict had taken p

A: To observe: To observe the type of rearrangement if a dicentric bridge at meiosis have occurred.

Q: Draw a simple sketch illustrating how nondisjunction in meiosis can lead to Down syndrome.

A: To draw: A simple sketch illustrating how nondisjunction in meiosis can lead to Down syndrome

Q: (i)Draw a diagram of Metaphase I and II of meiosis in the father, which illustrates the only…

A: In this situation, we need to figure out the genes and processes that cause a particular child to…

Q: Given a diploid number of 2N=8 and two crossing-over events, trace the fate of these chromosomes…

A: Meiosis is the process of cell division used by germ cells to produce haploid cells so they can…

Q: discuss during which phases of Meiosis Mendel’s Law of Segregation, and the law of independent…

A: Inheritance can be defined as the process of how a child receives genetic information from parent.…

Q: Describe one way that the events of prophase I vary from those of prophase ll during meiosis.…

A: Cell is the smallest structural and, functional unit of life. It is simple machinery that houses all…

Q: Explain why the reciprocal cross yields a different result from the first cross

A: DNA is the genetic material in most living organisms. It is the information hub of the cell that…

Q: A male baby is born with the sex-chromosomeconstitution XYY. Both parents have normal sex…

A: The failure of separation of sister chromatids during cell division is termed nondisjunction. In the…

Q: Name and explain the two events during meiosis that contribute to genetic variability among gametes.

A: Meiosis is the cell division process that involves division of a diploid (2n) mother cell into to…

Q: How does the law of segregation reflect the events of meiosis?

A: Law of segregation: This is one of the laws of Gregor Mendels Law of Inheritance. This law says that…

Q: When Gregor Mendel was working in the mid 1800s, scientists had not yet discovered chromosomes or…

A: Allele do not show any blending and that both the character are recovered as such in F2 generation…

Q: Explain how the events of meiosis can explain both segregation and independent assortment.

A: Meiosis is the reduction division during this cells with haploid set of chromosome is formed.

Q: identify the four products of single meiosis and compare them with the four products of many other…

A: The product of single meiosis are four haploid cells in which each chromosome has only one…

Q: Determine whether the chromosomes are most difficult to segregate properly during meiosis in Down…

A: Introduction Trisomy is a type of aneuploidy. In trisomy, we find three copies of chromosomes…

Q: How does the law of independent assortment reflect the events of meiosis?

A: The Principle of Independent Assortment explains how different genes differentiate from one another…

Q: What is the Law of Independent Assortment and how does this “law” relate to meiosis?

A: Introduction :- The alleles of two (or more) distinct genes are sorted into gametes independently of…

Q: Discuss the postulates of Mendel in relation to meiosis.

A: It is widely accepted that the modern science of genetics startted from the the discovery of the…

Q: Assuming that independence assortment occurs during meiosis what types of gametes will form…

A: Independent assortment is the separation of gene pairs independently from the other gene pairs.…

Q: Select the best answer or answers from the choices given: Relative to differences between mitosis…

A: The mechanism via which a cell called the parent cell divides to form two or more daughter cells is…

Q: Determine two process which is unique to meiosis and are responsible for genetic variations and in…

A: Meiosis is a type of cell division that reduces the number of chromosomes by half, resulting in four…

Q: Make and defend a claim based on evidence that the process of independent assortment during meiosis…

A: independent assortment is a regulation of heredity that explains how individual genes and alleles in…

Q: If two traits, dwarfism and stem color, were both on the same pair of chromosomes, would you expect…

A: According to Mendel's law of independent assortment, the segregation of alleles for one gene occurs…

Q: Explain how meiosis is able to produce cells with a haploid number of chromosomes and explain…

A: Meiosis is a type of cell division where mother cell ( 2n ) divided and produce 4 haploid ( n ) cell…

Q: What are the 8 stages of meiosi

A: Meiosis is a type of cell division in which the parent cell divides twice into four daughter cells…

Q: Describe two mechanisms that occur during meiosis thatproduce genetic variation among gametes.

A: Meiosis is the special type of cell division of germ cells in sexually reproducing organisms and…

Q: Discuss how meiosis and the events in meiosis explain Mendel’s laws.

A: Meiosis It refers to the cell division that occurs in sexually reproducing organisms that decreases…

Q: Name each stage of mitosis in the following diagram: A

A: According to guidelines we have to answer the first question only. so please kindly post the…

Q: A diploid organism has five pairs of chromosomes in each somatic cell. Assuming that no crossing…

A: When the DNA molecule is well organized and packaged into thread-like structures in the nucleus of…

Q: During meiosis, does random assortment occur before or after crossing-over?

A: Meiosis is the cell division that includes meiosis I and meiosis II without any DNA replication…

Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.