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What is the number of chromosomes each gamete receives after meiosis?
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The end result of meiosis is haploid daughter cells with chromosomal combinations different from those originally present in the parent. In sperm cells, four haploid gametes are produced.
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Why will meiosis ensure that offspring have the same chromosome number as parents?
In the process of fertilization, gametes (sperms from male and egg from female) fuse to form a zygote. Meiosis ensures that the number of chromosomes in each gamete is half the normal number in other non-gamete cells so that when the gametes fuse, the total number of chromosomes will once again add up to the usual number of chromosomes and not have twice the number instead.
An organism that reproduces sexually has a diploid number of 30 How many chromosomes will a gamete of this organism have?
A gamete has half the diploid number of chromosomes, so in this case, the gamete would have 15 chromosomes.
How many chromosomes are in a gamete?
Human gametes have 23 chromosomes. (In cases of abnormality there may be a different number of chromosomes in a gamete).
Does meiosis reduce chromosome numbers?
Yes - the daughter cells produced in meiosis (gametes) have half the number of chromosomes as those in the original cell. This is why meiosis is referred to as 'reduction division'. However, as meiosis produces cells which are involved in sexual reproduction - the chromosome number in the species remains constant. This is because when the two gametes combine, the resulting organism has the correct number of chromosomes (half from each gamete).
If a cell in a dog undergoes meiosis and another cell undergoes mitosis how many chromosomes will each resulting cell contain?
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.
The number of chromosomes in a gamete of an organism is its what?
D. Be produced by meiosis
What type of cellular reproduction reduces the number of chromosomes in each gamete?
meiosis :)
How many chromosomes would be present in a zebra gamete after meiosis the zebra has 50 chromosomes in its diploid cells?
A gamete has half the number of chromosomes of the somatic (diploid) cell. Therefore a zebra gamete would have 25 chromosomes if 50 is the diploid number.
How does a haploid gamete get a 1n number of chromosomes and a 1n amount of DNA?
By the process of meiosis.
Why does the formation of gametes involve meiosis?
Meiosis is the process of making a cell that has the same number of chromosomes as the parents. In order to keep the same number, they each make gametes which have half their own number of chromosomes. When one gamete, sperm, fertilizes the other gamete, the egg, they join their number of chromosomes together to make an offspring with the same number as the parents have. If they did not do this by meiosis, then very soon, we would have animals which huge numbers of chromosomes.
What is the number of chromosomes in daughter cells in humans during meiosis?
Meiosis produces daughter cells with half as many chromosomes as the parent cell. This means that because a normal human cell has 46 chromosomes, a gamete (produced through meiosis) will only contain 23 chromosomes.
What is gamete for heredity?
if you are asking what one is, a gamete is a sex cell that has half the number the number of chromosomes from one parent. during fertilization, two gamete(one from each parent) combine. they are formed during meiosis.
What process of nuclear division in which the number of chromosomes in certain cells is halved during gamete formation?
yes, gamete in human = 23 chromosomes....so two gametes meet...bam! 46 chromosomes...thus, you are half your mom and half your dad.
What are the number of chromosomes in the human gamete?
There are 23 chromosomes in a human gamete
If a cell with 40 chromosomes undergoes mitosis each of the daughter cells will have chromosomes.?
Meiosis results in gametes that have half the number of chromosomes of other cells. A gamete carries one of each pair of homologous chromosomes. Their are 46 chromosoes in Meiosis I and 23 in Meiosis II.
Why does meiosis cells with half the chromosome?
A gamete needs only half the number of chromosomes because two gametes join together =]
How does meiosis help genetic?
Meiosis is the division of the sex cells (sperm and egg). Meiosis produces gametes with one half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell. A female gamete and male gamete will then undergo fertilization and create a zygote. (not limited to just humans, meiosis occurs in sexually reproducing organisms).
