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Gametes are sex cells - sperm and egg. Other cells are somatic cells - regular body and organ cells. Also, gametes have half the number of chromosomes as somatic cells do. This is because, when the zygote is formed (sperm and egg form together) they take their chromosomes together to make the number of chromosomes a somatic cell has.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoAlthough there are several differences between a gametic cell and a somatic cell (body cell), the most important one is the difference in the chromosome number.
If N represents the haploid number in an organisms genome, the gametic cell contains N number of chromosomes while the somatic cell contains 2N or other multiples of N depending on the organism in question.
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∙ 12y agoThey are sex cells and haploid. n. This means they have 23 chromosomes ( in humans ) which is half the usual cellular complement of chromosomes. This way when male and female gametes form a zygote the number of chromosomes are a full and matched complement.
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∙ 15y agoGametes have only 23 chromosomes where every other cell in the body has 46.
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∙ 11y agoThey only have 1 copy of the genes, and are therefore haploid cells instead of the diploid parent cell.
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∙ 13y agoGametes are sex cells, and so they contain half the DNA of a normal body cell.
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∙ 11y agoThey have their own chromosomes
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How are genetic mutations passed from parent to offspring?
In the gametes.
True or false the ordered arrangement of chromosomes in gametes is the same as they were in the parent cell?
false
Will a mutation that occurs in a skin cell be passed on to organism offspring?
Depends on how likely the mutation is to occur (how dominate) and on the genetics of the other parent. If the offspring is a clone, the mutation will be passed from parent to clone.
If a cell has 14 chromosomes and undergoes meiosis how many chromosomes will each cell have?
The daughter cells will have 14 chromosomes, the same as the parent cell. Not only are the numbers of chromosomes the same, but they are also genetically identical to each other and the parent cell.
What is the number of chromosomes in the zygote if the parent's reproductive cells or gametes contain 12 chromosomes each?
It will be 24 in the zygote since zygote is diploid cell and gametes are haploid.
Do the number of chromosomes in each new cell formed differ from each other?
Gametes contain different genetic information to each other and to the parent cell.
Are gametes produced in meiosis identical to each other but different from parent cell?
No. Each gamete is genetically different from the other gametes and from the parent cell.
What is the name given to the original cells before it divides?
In eukaryotes, there are two distinct types of cell division: a vegetative division, whereby each daughter cell is genetically identical to the parent cell (mitosis), and a reproductive cell division, whereby the number of chromosomes in the daughter cells is reduced by half to produce haploid gametes (meiosis).
How are genetic mutations passed from parent to offspring?
In the gametes.
True or false the ordered arrangement of chromosomes in gametes is the same as they were in the parent cell?
false
Are offspring of gametes haploid or diploid?
Gametes are haploid. When two gametes unite during fertilization, they form a diploid zygote, genetically unique from either parent, and the first cell of the offspring. The zygote is not really considered an offspring of the gametes, but of the parent organisms that produced the gametes. For example, a human zygote is the first cell of a human baby formed when a sperm from a male and an ovum from a female unite during fertilization. The zygote and subsequent baby are the offspring of the mother and father.
How does a cell produced by meiosis differ from the parent cell?
They are identical in every aspect aside from age
How does mitosis differ in plants?
Plants have a structure called a cell plate which partitions the daughter cell from parent cell.
What is the process of making gametes called?
Male gametes* --->Meiosis. (basic pre-biology in most all biology books)
From which cell does human life begin?
A human is created by two gametes, one from each parent, fuse to form a zygote, which is unique from the cells of either parent and is the initial cell that eventually becomes the offspring.
What occurs from interphase in the parent cell to the formation of the zygote?
Interphase is the phase where cell division doesn't happen. For a zygote to occur, two gametes need to be combined. These gametes are created through meiosis, and then combined through sexual reproduction.
Each daughter cell receives pairs of DNA that differ from those of the parent cell?
Its false... :P
