BIOL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mitosis, Centromere, Chromosome

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Meiotic cell division followed by fusion of gametes keeps the chromosome number. Fertilization of diploid cells from the first-generation sperm and egg would result in a cell with four copies of each homologue, giving the offspring twice as many chromosomes as its parents. These offspring would produce gametes with four copies of each homologue, so their offspring will have eight copies, the next with 16 copies, and so on. On the other hand, when a haploid sperm fuses with a haploid egg, the resulting offspring are diploid just like their parents. Meiosis i separates homologous chromosomes into two haploid daughter nuclei. The phases of meiosis have the same names as the roughly equivalent phases of mitosis. Like mitosis, the chromosomes are duplicated during interphase prior to meiosis, and the sister chromatids of each chromosome are attached to one another at centromere when meiosis begins. Meiosis ii separates sister chromatids into four daughter nuclei. During prophase ii, the spindle microtubules re-form.

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