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Meiosis Background Terms

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Question 1
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_______________ are segments of DNA that code for _________________.

Question 2
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Question 3
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Question 4
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Question 5
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In the process of meiosis, chromosomes are first ___________ then the cell divides ______.

Question 6
6.

After meiosis, fertilization may occur in which 2 ______________ with _________chromosmes come together to form a _____________ with _______ chromosomes. This is the cell every one of us started out as.

Question 7
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Both chromosmes in the pair of chromosome number 18 are from different parents. They have the same ________ but potentially different __________. (word bank: genes, nucleus, cells, alleles)

Question 8
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All somatic (body cells) in our body have the same number of chromosomes 46.

Question 9
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All gamete (sex cells) in our body have the same number of chromosomes 46.

Chromosomes, tRNA
Genes, Chromosomes
Genes, tRNA
Genes, Proteins
Chromosomes, Proteins
Chromosomes, Genes
DNA is coiled up around proteins called histones and organized into _______ chromosomes in each of our body cells and ______ chromosomes inn each of our sex cells.
24, 12
23, 46
46, 92
46, 23
4, 2
92, 46
48, 24
What type of cells are made in the process of meiosis? Select all that apply.
lung cell
stomach cell
sperm
neuron (brain cell)
blood cell
skin/epithelial cell
egg
Meiosis is (select all that apply)
how babies are made
the making of new skin cells when old ones die
the making of egg cells
the making of zygotes (fertilized eggs)
the making of gametes
the making of sperm cells
tripled, once
copied, once
tripled, two times
divided, once
copied, two times
divided, two times
zygotes, 23, gametes, 46
somatic cells, 23, zygote, 46
zyogotes, 46, gamete, 92