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| ARE CHROMOSOMES THAT DETERMINE THE SEX OF AN ORGANISM MAY ALSO CARRY GENES FOR OTHER CHARACTERISTICS |
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| ALL OF THE CHROMOSOMES AND THE 44 REMAINING |
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| ARE THE SAME SIZE AND SHAPE AND CARRY GENES FOR THE SAME TRAITS |
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| CELLS HAVE TWO AUTOSOMES FOR EACH HOMOLOGOUS PAIR |
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| ONLY ONE SET OF CHROMOSOMES HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF CHROMSOMES THAT ARE IN DIPLOID CELLS |
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| RESULTS IN THE NEW CELLS WITH GENETIC MATERIAL THAT IS IDENTICAL TO THE GENETIC MATERIAL OF THE ORIGINAL CELL |
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| IS THE PRODUCTION OF OFFSPRING FROM ONE PARENT |
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| OCCURS DURING THE FOMATION OF GAMETES WHICH ARE HAPLOID REPRODUCTION CELLS |
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| a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism. |
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| the period of the cell cycle during which the nucleus is not undergoing division, typically occurring between mitotic or meiotic divisions. Also called interkinesis. Compare G1 phase, S phase, G2 phase. |
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| the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes. |
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| the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle. |
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| he stage in mitosis or meiosis following metaphase in which the daughter chromosomes move away from each other to opposite ends of the cell. |
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| the division of the cell cytoplasm that usually follows mitotic or meiotic division of the nucleus. |
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| he final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes. |
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| in plant cells) a plate that develops at the midpoint between the two groups of chromosomes in a dividing cell and that is involved in forming the wall between the two new daughter cells. |
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