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    Gametes Have Half The Number of Chromosomes That Body Cells Have

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    Body cells contain two copies of each chromosome (are diploid), while gametes contain one copy of each chromosome (are haploid). Meiosis is the process by which diploid cells in the ovaries and testes divide to produce haploid gametes like eggs and sperm, ensuring that the correct number of chromosomes is passed to offspring during sexual reproduction.

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    Body cells contain two copies of each chromosome (are diploid), while gametes contain one copy of each chromosome (are haploid). Meiosis is the process by which diploid cells in the ovaries and testes divide to produce haploid gametes like eggs and sperm, ensuring that the correct number of chromosomes is passed to offspring during sexual reproduction.

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    Body cells contain two copies of each chromosome (are diploid), while gametes contain one copy of each chromosome (are haploid). Meiosis is the process by which diploid cells in the ovaries and testes divide to produce haploid gametes like eggs and sperm, ensuring that the correct number of chromosomes is passed to offspring during sexual reproduction.

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    Gametes Have Half The Number of Chromosomes That Body Cells Have

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    Body cells contain two copies of each chromosome (are diploid), while gametes contain one copy of each chromosome (are haploid). Meiosis is the process by which diploid cells in the ovaries and testes divide to produce haploid gametes like eggs and sperm, ensuring that the correct number of chromosomes is passed to offspring during sexual reproduction.

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    6.

    1 Chromosomes and Meiosis


    KEY CONCEPT Gametes have half the number of chromosomes that body cells have.

    6.1 Chromosomes and Meiosis


    You have body cells and gametes. Body cells are also called somatic cells. Germ cells develop into gametes. Germ cells are located in the ovaries and testes. Gametes are sex cells: egg and sperm. Gametes have DNA that can be passed to offspring.

    body cells

    sex cells (sperm)

    sex cells (egg)

    6.1 Chromosomes and Meiosis


    Your cells have autosomes and sex chromosomes.

    Your body cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Homologous pairs of chromosomes have the same structure. For each homologous pair, one chromosome comes from each parent. Chromosome pairs 1-22 are autosomes. Sex chromosomes, X and Y, determine gender in mammals.

    6.1 Chromosomes and Meiosis


    Body cells are diploid; gametes are haploid. Fertilization between egg and sperm occurs in sexual reproduction. Diploid (2n) cells have two copies of every chromosome. Body cells are diploid. Half the chromosomes come from each parent.

    6.1 Chromosomes and Meiosis


    Haploid (n) cells have one copy of every chromosome. Gametes are haploid. Gametes have 22 autosomes and 1 sex chromosome.

    6.1 Chromosomes and Meiosis


    Chromosome number must be maintained in animals. Many plants have more than two copies of each chromosome. Mitosis and meiosis are types of nuclear division that make different types of cells. Mitosis makes more diploid cells.

    6.1 Chromosomes and Meiosis


    Meiosis makes haploid cells from diploid cells. Meiosis occurs in sex cells. Meiosis produces gametes.

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