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Body cells or somatic cells have a full number of chromosomes while sex cells have one half the number.
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Is mitosis sex or body cells?
Body cells. Meiosis deals with sex cells
How are body cells different from sex cells?
Cause body cells have twice the chromosomes a sex cell has Body cells have 46 chromosomes and sex cells have 23 chromosomes.
Sex cells differ from body cells in that they do not have?
Sex cells differ from body cells in that they do not have a set of homologous chromosomes. Body cells have two copies of each chromosome while sex cells (or gametes) have only one set
In what type of cells does respiration?
Either sex cells or body cells. Sex cells perform mieosis, and body cels perform mitosis.
When the cells in the male and female parent divide do they form body cells or sex cells?
Sex cells.
Do body cells have less chromosomes than sex cells?
No, somatic (non-sex) cells have twice the number of chromosomes that sex cells have.
How many chromosomes do body cells of organisms have in relationship to the sex cells of the same organism?
There are 46 chromosomes in the body cells of organisms which have a relationship with the sex cells.
What did Sutton observe about the relative numbers of chromosomes in the body cells and sex cells of grasshoppers?
body cells of a grasshopper has 24 chromosomes and 12 chromosomes in the sex cells so as many body cell chromosomes you have you will have half that number of chromosomes in your sex cells.
What are the two types of cells found in the body?
Sex cells (germ cells) and somatic (body cells) cells
What is the duplication of sex cells called?
Meiosis is the division of sex cells and mitosis is the division of body cells
What body cells undergo melosis?
sex cells
The number of chromosomes in sex cells relative to the body cells?
there are half the number of chromosomes in sex cells than in body cells because the sex cell needs to combine with another to complete its set of chromosomes
