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    Biology Mitosis and Meiosis Essay

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    Mitosis and meiosis are two types of cell division. Mitosis produces new body cells for growth and healing through five stages - interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. The goal is to produce two daughter cells with identical genetic material. Meiosis produces gametes like sperm and egg cells, halving the number of chromosomes through two cell divisions so fertilization can restore the original number. Genetic information must be halved during meiosis so that when gametes fuse at fertilization, the resulting zygote has the full chromosome number of its species.

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    Mitosis and meiosis are two types of cell division. Mitosis produces new body cells for growth and healing through five stages - interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. The goal is to produce two daughter cells with identical genetic material. Meiosis produces gametes like sperm and egg cells, halving the number of chromosomes through two cell divisions so fertilization can restore the original number. Genetic information must be halved during meiosis so that when gametes fuse at fertilization, the resulting zygote has the full chromosome number of its species.

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    Mitosis and meiosis are two types of cell division. Mitosis produces new body cells for growth and healing through five stages - interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. The goal is to produce two daughter cells with identical genetic material. Meiosis produces gametes like sperm and egg cells, halving the number of chromosomes through two cell divisions so fertilization can restore the original number. Genetic information must be halved during meiosis so that when gametes fuse at fertilization, the resulting zygote has the full chromosome number of its species.

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    Stacy Fournier

    Mitosis and Meiosis ~ Take Home Test (essay)


    Mrs. Lennon ~ A4

    In this essay I will address the following points; what role does mitosis play
    in your ability to grow, heal wounds and develop? , What is the goal, overall, of a
    cell that undergoes Mitosis? , what is meiosis? What kinds of cells in your body
    would go through this kind of division? , How does meiosis, through the two
    rounds of division, cut the amount of genetic information in half? And why does
    the amount of genetic information have to be cut in half anyway?
    I will first explain what role does mitosis play in your ability to grow, heal
    wounds and develop. Any living organism is constantly making new cells. A
    healthy human produces 25 million new cells every second. Every time an
    organism grows in size or repairs worn out or damaged tissue new cells are
    made. Mitosis has five stages that cell goes through to form two daughter cells
    which are new cells that help us develop new tissue that was ruined or for any
    reason. Mitosis is the process that guarantees the continuation of life and genes.
    I will next explain the phases of mitosis! The cell cycle starts off with
    Interphase; it is the busy part of the cell cycle this is where the cell makes ATP
    witch is energy. This stage also makes protein, producing new organelles such
    as ribosomes and mitochondria and duplicating there chromosomes. The first
    actual phase of mitosis is Prophase, it is the longest phase. Stringy chromatin
    coils up into visible chromosomes, the duplicated chromosomes are made up of
    two halves. The second dividing stage of mitosis is Metaphase; the
    chromosomes become attached to the spindle fibers by there centromeres. Then
    the chromosomes get pulled to the “equator” of the spindle. The third dividing
    stage of mitosis is Anaphase; during anaphase the centromeres are starting to
    split up and the chromatid pairs from each chromosome separate from each
    other. The finale dividing stage of mitosis is Telophase; telophase is when many
    of the changes that occurred in prophase are reversed as the new cells begin to
    get ready for their own independent existence. The goal for a cell that under goes
    mitosis, is to be developed into daughter cells.
    This next paragraph will explain what meiosis is and what kinds of cells in
    your body would go through this kind of division. Meiosis is cell division which
    produces gametes containing half the number of chromosomes as a parent’s
    body cell. The cells in your body that go through the division of meiosis one and
    two are male gametes which are known as sperm and female gametes known as
    eggs.
    I will explain to you now how meiosis, through the two rounds of division,
    cut the amount of genetic information in half. In meiosis one, cells are copied and
    moved to separate poles. A cell with two of each kind of chromosome is called a
    diploid. In meiosis one, diploids are formed. During meiosis two the cell is not
    copied and you only have half going to each pole, and a cell with one of each
    kind of chromosomes called a haploid.
    In this paragraph I will explain why the amount of genetic information has
    to be cut in half. In telophase one of meiosis the spindle is broken down, the
    chromosomes uncoil and the cytoplasm divides to yield two new cells. Each cell
    has only half the genetic information of the original cell because it has only one
    chromosome from each homologous pair. That is why the amount of genetic
    information must be cut in half.
    That is my understanding of what role does mitosis play in your ability to
    grow, heal wounds and develop? , What is the goal, overall, of a cell that
    undergoes Mitosis? , what is meiosis? What kinds of cells in your body would go
    through this kind of division? , How does meiosis, through the two rounds of
    division, cut the amount of genetic information in half? And why does the amount
    of genetic information have to be cut in half anyway?

    BY:
    Stacy Fournier

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