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CP Review: Meiosis & Mutations

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Question 1

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Which process increases genetic diversity?

Mitosis

Meiosis

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Question 2

2.

How are cells created in mitosis different from those in meiosis?

Mitosis creates genetically identical cells, while meiosis creates genetically unique cells

Mitosis creates genetically unique cells, while meiosis creates genetically identical cells

Mitosis takes place only in reproductive organs, while meiosis takes place in all organs

Mitosis only happens later in an organism's life, while meiosis takes place continually

Question 3

3.

During meiosis, what happens to the number of chromosomes?

It is doubled

It is reduced by half

It remains the same

It becomes diploid

Question 4

4.

Which of the following results in a frameshift mutation?

Insertions only

Deletions only

Substitutions only

Both insertions and deletions

Question 5

5.

Replacing a single amino acid serine with the amino acid glycine would be an example of which of the following mutations?

Frameshift

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Silent

Nonsense