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Mitosis and meiosis stages

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What is mitosis?

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The process in which a eukaryotic cell nucleus splits in two. (A parent cell to 2 daughter cells)

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What does the word mitosis mean?

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threads (because of its threadlike appearance)

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What are the microtubules collectively known as?

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the spindle

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What are centrosomes?

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they organize the microtubules and control cell division

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What are the phases of mitosis?

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Prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, cytokinesis

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What happens during prophase?

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The first stage of mitosis. when the parent cells condense and become compacted. The miotic spindle also begin to form

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Each duplicated chromosome consist of _______ joined at a point called the _______.

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two sister chromosomes; centromere

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What DNA-binding proteins catalyze the condensation process?

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cohesin and condensin

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What is cohesin?

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It forms rings that hold the sister chromatids together

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What is condensin?

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Forms rings that coil the chromosomes into compact forms

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What happens in prometaphase?

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phosphorylation of nuclear lamins by M-CDK causes the nuclear membrane to break down into numerous small vesicles. The spindle microtubules now have access to DNA

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What is the kinetochore?

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a complex of proteins positioned at the centromere. Its kind of like a tug of war game that ensues as the chromosomes move back and forth toward the two poles

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What happens during metaphase?

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the chromosomes align along the cell equator and become balanced. The chromosomes no longer move back and forth. The spindle is also complete.

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What does the kinetochore microtubules do during metaphase?

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they attach the chromosomes to the spindle pole

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What does the interpolar microtubules do during metaphase?

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extend from the spindle pole across the equator, almost to the opposite spindle pole

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What do the astral microtubules do during metaphase?

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They extend from the spindle pole to the cell membrane

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What happens during anaphase?

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Each chromosome's sister chromatids separate and
move to opposite poles of the cell. Cohesin also breaks down, and every chromatid becomes an independent chromosome.

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What happens specifically in anaphase A?

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the kinetochore microtubules shorten and draw the chromosomes toward the spindle poles

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What happens specifically in anaphase B?

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the astral microtubules that are anchored to the cell membrane pull the poles further apart and the interpolar microtubules slide past each othe

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What happens during telophase?

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the chromosomes arrive at the cell poles, the mitotic spindle disassembles, and the vesicles that contain fragments of the original nuclear membrane assemble around the two sets of chromosomes

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The dephosphorylation in telophase results in the formation of what?

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new nuclear membrane around each group of chromosomes

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What happens during cytokinesis?

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the physical process that finally splits the parent cell into two identical daughter cells

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What is the cleavage furrow? And what filaments cause this?

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During cytokinesis, the cell membrane pinches in at the cell equator, forming a cleft. myosin and actin filaments

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What is meiosis?

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cell division that educes the number of chromosomes in the parent cell by half and produces four gamete cells. (It produces egg and sperm cell for sexual reproduction)

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What are the steps of meiosis?

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It starts with a diploid parent and the parent goes through DNA replication and are then separated in 2 cycles. The results are 4 haploid daughter cells which contain half the number of chromosomes.

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What is meiosis I?

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A type of cell division unique to germ cells

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What are the steps of prohase I?

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1. the complex of DNA and protein known as chromatin condenses to form chromosomes.

2. The pairs of replicated chromosomes are known as sister chromatids, and they remain joined at a central point called the
centromere

3. A large structure called the meiotic spindle also forms from long proteins called microtubules on each side, or pole, of the cell

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What is a tetrad?

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(Formed by homologous chromosomes between prophase I and metaphase I.) Within the tetrad, any pair of chromatid arms can overlap and fuse in a process called crossing-over or recombination.

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What is recombination?

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A process that breaks, recombines and rejoins sections of DNA to produce new combinations of genes.

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What happens in metaphase I?

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the homologous pairs of chromosomes align on either side of the equatorial plate

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What happens in anaphase I?

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the spindle fibers contract and pull the homologous pairs, each with two chromatids, away from each other and toward each pole of the cell.

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What happens in telophase I?

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The chromosomes are enclosed in nuclei

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What happens in cytokinesis in meiosis I?

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It divides the cytoplasm of the original cell into two daughter cells where each one has half the total number of chromosomes of the original cell

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What is meiosis II?

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It is very similar to mitosis and is the division of each haploid cell produced by the first stage

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What happens during prophase II?

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The chromosomes condense, and a new set of spindle fibers forms. The chromosomes begin moving toward the equator of the cell.

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What happens during metaphase II?

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the centromeres of the paired chromatids align along the equatorial plate in both cells.

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What happens during anaphase II?

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the chromosomes separate at the centromeres. The spindle fibers pull the separated chromosomes toward each pole of the cell.

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What happens during telophase II?

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The chromosomes are enclosed in nuclear membrane

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What happens during cytokinesis in meiosis II?

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dividing the cytoplasm of the two cells where there are 4 haploid daughter cells that develop into sperm or egg cells

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What is sex linkage?

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genes that are located on the sex chromosomes.

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What are sex chromosomes?

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They determine whether an individual is male or female. (females (eggs) have XX and males(sperm) have XY)

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What are non-sex chromosomes called?

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autosomes and they come in homologous pairs

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What are homologous pairs?

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They have the same gene arranged in the same order

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True or false. X and Y chromosomes have different genes

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true

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How many genes do the X and Y chromosomes have?

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X - more than 1000

Y - only a few

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An egg and sperm join to make what?

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a zygote which develop into an offspring

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Which chromosomes passes from father to son?

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Y chromosome

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Genes code for what?

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proteins and proteins make traits

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What are alleles?

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different versions of the same gene

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Why are sex linked disorders more common males than female?

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Because males have no back up copy of genes. These differences lead to specific inheritance patterns for sex linked genes

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Recombination makes what?

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new allele combinations, which can be passed to offsprings

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In which sex chromosomes is no recombination?

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the XY male animals

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True or false. Genes that are genetically linked are inherited separately less than 50% of the time

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true

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What is sordaria?

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A fungus that is convenient to use in labs for conducting tetrad analysis of segregation of color mutants. (Spends half of its life in a haploid vegetative state)

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Finish reading about sordaria

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