Meiosis and Sexual Reproduction
There is a special kind of cell division that occurs exclusively in the gonads (ovaries and testes) of eukaryotic organisms. This special cell division is called meiosis.
Meiosis
The Problem
Mitosis produces two cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell. Mitosis of a diploid cell (2n) produces two diploid daughter cells.
meiosis
the preparation and maturation of a cell, whereby the chromosome number is reduced by one half (reduction division)
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Meiosis
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Meiosis is important in assuring genetic diversity in sexual reproduction. Use this interactive animation to follow Meiosis I (reduction division) and Meiosis II in a continuous sequence or stop at any stage and review critical events.
Meiosis
[Gr. meiosis - reduction]. Two consecutive nuclear divisions whereby the resultant daughter nuclei contain half the chromosome complement of other somatic cells; occurs at time of gametogenesis. Synonym: reduction division.
Meiosis is part of the sexual process because gametes (sperm, eggs) have one half the chromosomes as diploid (2N) individuals.
In animals, meiosis occurs only when gametes (sperm, eggs) are formed.
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Meiosis
Meiosis is the formation of egg and sperm cells. In sexually reproducing organisms, body cells are diploid, meaning they contain two sets of chromosomes (one set from each parent).
Meiosis is a special type of nuclear division which segregates one copy of each homologous chromosome into each new "gamete".
Meiosis II
Chromatid
The term which McClung (1900) proposed for each of the four threads making up a chromosome-pair at meiosis (Gk. chroma, colour; for the derivation of '-id', see diploid).
meiosis -- A two-stage type of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms. In meiosis, a diploid cell divides to produce four haploid cells, each with half the original chromosome content.
Meiosis
The process of two consecutive cell divisions in the diploid progenitors of sex cells. Meiosis results in four rather than two daughter cells, each with a haploid set of chromosomes.
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Meiosis II
Crossing over
The term coined by Morgan and Cattell (1912) for the occurrence of new combinations of linked characters.
Meiosis: the process of cell division in which a single cell produces four daughter cells each of which contains half of the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.
Meiosis
The process of nuclear division associated with the formation of gametes or of haploid cells from a diploid.
meiosis
(my-oh-sis) [Gk. meioun, to make smaller]
A two-stage type of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that results in gametes with half the chromosome number of the original cell.
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meiosis Cell division in which the chromosomes replicate, followed by two nuclear divisions. Each of the resulting gametes (in animals, spores in plants) receives a haploid set of chromosomes.
Meiosis: The production of se x cells, which are not genetically identical, through a series of cell divisions. Compare to mitosis.
Messenger RNA (mRNA): A single-stranded molecule of ribonucleic acid that directs protein production.
Meiosis (my-OH-sis) The type of cell division that makes egg and sperm cells. Meiosis generates cells that are genetically different from one another and contain half the total number of chromosomes in the parent cell. See haploid.
Meiosis The sequence of two cell divisions which turns a diploid germ cell into a haploid gamete.
Messenger RNA (mRNA) RNA which leaves the nucleus carrying information which, by translation, will direct the synthesis of polypeptides.
Meiosis. The reduction division process by which haploid gametes and spores are formed, consisting of a single duplication of the genetic material followed by two mitotic divisions.
meiosis
A type of nuclear division associated with sexual reproduction, producing four haploid cells from a single diploid cell, the process involving two cycles of division.
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Meiosis a special cell division resulting in sex cells with half as many chromosomes
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meiosis Process of cell division by which egg and sperm cells are formed, involving a diminution in the amount of genetic material.
At meiosis in a reciprocal translocation heterozygote, the passage ( segregation) of both normal chromosomes to one pole and both translocated chromosomes to the other pole, giving genetically balanced gametes.
In meiosis, homologous chromosomes line up. The DNA of the chromosome is broken on both chromosomes in several places and rejoined with the other strand.
Mitosis and Meiosis
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Each of the two daughter strands of a duplicated chromosome joined at the centromere during mitosis and meiosis. Chromosome.
Centromere -- a region of a chromosome to which spindle traction fibers attach during mitosis and meiosis; the position of the centromere determines whether the chromosome is considered an acrocentric, metacentric or telomeric chromosome.
Meiosis Tutorial A tutorial on the relationship between chromosome movements in meiosis and the segregation of alleles in meiosis
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Chromatid The two identical halves of a chromosome produced for cell division and meiosis.
Chromosome Structures found in the nucleus of cells composed of DNA and proteins.
If the type of cell reproduction that uses mitosis can reproduce our cells, why do we bother with the more complicated process of meiosis?
A dramatic rise in intracellular calcium plays a vital role at the moment of fertilization, eliciting the resumption of meiosis and the initiation of embryo development.
Diploten (diplonema): The stage of meiosis I in which recombination between homologous chromosomes occurs. In females, oocytes are frozen at this stage at birth. Only one proceeds to the completion of meiosis every month during reproductive years.
The point where the two identical chromatids are connected during mitosis/meiosis.
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In instances of sexual reproduction, the cellular process of meiosis is first necessary so that haploid daughter cells, or gametes, can be produced.
Meiosis - cellular division that yields four gametes through two cellular divisions
Metaphase - phase of mitosis in which the chromosome pairs line up at the equator of the cell ...
This process is the molecular basis of crossing over during meiosis and some DNA repair mechanisms. Another form of recombination, site-specific recombination, is found where transfer, rearrangement or insertion of specific sections of DNA occurs e.
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