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Introduction to Meiosis Worksheet
1. What are the two types of reproduction? What is the difference between the two types?

2. What are somatic cells? Give an example. What are gametes? Give an example.

3. What type of cell undergoes meiosis? Gametic Cells or Somatic cells

4. What are homologous chromosomes?

5. What is the difference between a haploid and diploid?

6. For each of the following state if the cell is haploid or diploid.


Sperm cell =
Liver cell =
Egg cell =
Stomach cell =

7. If the diploid number in a liver cell is 52, how many chromosomes are there in the egg of this organism? _________

8. The fusion of a _______________ and a _________________ produces a zygote with 46 (2n) chromosome number.

9. During meiosis, the chromosome number:


a) is doubled
b) is reduced
c) remains the same
d) becomes diploid

10. Name the 2 human gametes & tell their chromosome number. Are they haploid or diploid?

11. Cells starting mitosis & meiosis begin with a (haploid or diploid) set of chromosomes.

12. How many times do cells divide during meiosis? When?

13. What are the stages of meiosis called?


Meiosis I: _________________, ____________________, _______________, _________________/cytokinesis

Meiosis II: _____________, _______________, ____________, ________________/cytokinesis

14. Which letter in figure #2 represents meiosis? Why?

15. How many cells are formed at the end of Meiosis I & how many copies of Figure
chromosomes does each cell have? __________, 2
___________________________________________________________

16. Is DNA copied before Meiosis II? _____


17. How many cells form at the end of Meiosis II and how many chromosomes do they contain?
__________,___________________

18. When a sperm cell and an ovum merge, they undergo the process of fertilization, and give rise to a (gamete, zygote),
which is (haploid, diploid).

19. A hypothetical organism has 10 chromosomes for each of its body cells (somatic cells).

a. Skin cells are continuously being rubbed off and replaced. How many chromosomes will be contained in each new
skin cell that is replaced? ____

b. This replacement occurs through the process of ______.

c. The diploid number (2N) for this organism is ____.

d. This organism would have how many homologous pairs of chromosomes? ____

e. The female of this organism has an ovary. The number of chromosomes in each of the cells that make up the
ovary would be ____.

f. The mature eggs of this female would contain how many chromosomes? ____

20. Below are pictures of meiosis, label them accordingly. (Use your book-Chapter 9 Section 5)

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