If a cell in a dog undergoes meiosis and another cell undergoes mitosis how many chromosomes will each resulting cell contain?

Answer 1

Meiosis is usually reserved for cells used in sexual reproduction. They have half the number of chromosomes found in the organism's somatic cells. A mosquito has six chromosomes in its somatic cells, and therefore would have three in each gamete formed by meiosis.

Answer 2

First it must be understood that a dog's somatic cells (body cells) contain 78 chromosomes.

So if the somatic cell undergoes mitosis, it would form to identical cells with 78 chromosomes.

While if a gamete (sex cell) of the same dog underwent meiosis, if would produce four gametes with half the number of chromosomes or 39 chromosomes.

Mitosis - 2 cells with 78 chromosomes

Meiosis - 4 cells with 39 chromosomes

Answer 3

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