Question: What type of cell do you see through the microscope?

Answer: Egg

Question: Ovum and sperm are gametes. Unlike somatic cells (the rest of the cells in our body) they only contain a single set of chromosomes, therefore they are considered as what type of cells?

Answer: Haploid

Question: What is the union of two gametes from two individual organisms called ?

Answer: Fertilization

Question: What do you see under the microscope?

Answer: Sperm

Question: Unicellular organisms such as bacteria depend on asexual reproduction Why sexual reproduction so common in higher multicellular organisms such as humans ?

Answer: Because it creates genetic variation in the population

Question: Mitosis and meiosis are both involved in reproduction. While asexual reproduction only involves mitosis , what does sexual reproduction involve?

Answer: Both mitosis and meiosis

Question: Prior To The Fertilization Process, Higher Eukaryotes Have To Produce Reproductive Cells Called

Answer: Meiosis

Question: What would happen if organisms produced reproductive cells through mitosis instead of meiosis ?

Answer: The chromosome number of that species would double with each generation

Question: What are the individual chromosomes that are inherited from each of the parents called?

Answer: A homologous pair

Question: .

Answer: They replicate

Question: What is box 'D' connected to?

Answer: Sis chromatids

Question: In meiosis a diploid cell divides twice yielding four haploid daughter cells. What separates in meiosis 1.

Answer: Homologous

Question: In order to yield haploid cells, what separates in meiosis ?

Answer: Sister cromatids

Question: What phase are the cells in

Answer: Metaphase 1

Question: Which stage of meiosis is the cell on the right side currently in?

Answer: Anaphase

Question: .

Answer: 4

Question: Examine the slides. We used different colors to stain different chromosomes. Orange for chromosome X; yellow for chromosome Ygreen for chromosome 13; blue for chromosome 18 and red for chromosome 21. Based on the slide analysis, what would be the sex of the baby?

Answer: Male

Question: Based on the slide analysis, do you think that the baby would have any chromosome abnormality ?

Answer: Yes he would have a trisomy 13

Question: Individuals with the appropriate number of chromosomes are called euploid. What is the correct term to describe an organism that has an unusual number of chromosomes?

Answer: Aneuploid