As you read and learn about mitosis and meiosis, these are your objectives:
- -Distinguish between sexual and asexual reproduction.
- - Describe the processes of Mitosis and Meiosis.
- Recognize the chromosomes of daughter cells, formed through the processes of asexual reproduction and mitosis, the formation of somatic (body) cells in multicellular organisms, are identical to the chromosomes of the parent cell
- Recognize that during meiosis (the formation of sex cells), chromosomes are reduced to half the number present in the parent cell
- Explain how fertilization restores the diploid number of chromosomes
- Identify the implications of human sex chromosomes for sex determination