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- 1. Multiple Choice
How does a sex cell differ from a body cell?
A sex cell does not contain chromosomes.
A sex cell contains homologous chromosomes.
A sex cell has the same number of chromosomes as a body cell.
A sex cell has half the amount of genetic material as a body cell.
- 2. Multiple Choice
How do the chromosomes at the end of meiosis I compare with the chromosomes at the end of meiosis II?
Chromosomes have on chromatid at the end of both meiosis I and meiosis II.
Chromosomes have two chromatids at the end of both meiosis I and meiosis II.
Chromosomes have on chromatid at the end of meiosis I and two chromatids at the end of meiosis II.
Chromosomes have two chromatids at the end of meiosis I and one chromatid at the end of meiosis II.
- 3. Multiple Choice
The diagram shows a human cell. What type of cell is this?
a sex cell
a body cell
a cell about to go through mitosis
a cell about to go through meiosis
- 4. Multiple Choice
Amanda is making a poster to describe the two types of cell division. She draws an outline of a human body on a poster. Amanda wants to show diagrams of mitosis and meiosis zooming out from the different parts of the body where they take place. Which of these choices correctly shows the location for a type of cell division?
bone - meiosis
testes - meiosis
ovaries - mitosis
stomach - meiosis
- 5. Multiple Choice
How is meiosis related to sexual reproduction?
Meiosis allows the offspring produced during sexual reproduction to grow and develop.
Meiosis joins together the sex cells during sexual reproduction to produce new offspring.
Meiosis produces the sex cells that join to form new offspring during sexual reproduction.
Meiosis produces the body cells that join to form new offspring during sexual reproduction.
- 6. Multiple Choice
The figure shows a cell from an organism whose body cells each have four chromosomes. What is shown in this figure?
two chromatids
four chromatids
four chromosomes
four chromosome pairs
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of these choices is a product of mitosis?
egg
sperm
sex cell
skin cell
- 8. Multiple Choice
If a sexually reproducing organism has 48 chromosomes in its body cells, how many chromosomes did it inherit from each parent?
24
48
12
14
- 9. Multiple Choice
A science teacher drew a diagram of cell division. What kind of division is shown in this diagram?
one mitotic division
two mitotic division
two meiosis I divisions
one meiosis I division and one meiosis II division
- 10. Multiple Choice
______________ is the process of cell division that results in the formation of cells with half the usual number of chromosomes.
meiosis
mitosis
mitosis II
- 11. Multiple Choice
The diagram below shows a body cell with 4 homologous pairs of chromosomes. During sexual reproduction, how many chromosomes will this organism transmit to it's offspring?
8, all the chromosomes shown
2, one pair of homologous chromosomes
4, two pairs of homologous chromosomes
4, one chromosome from each homologous pair
- 12. Multiple Choice
A cell with a pair of every chromosome (full set of DNA) is called
diploid cell
haploid cell
gamete
sex cell
- 13. Multiple Choice
_____ is the process in sexual reproduction in which male and female reproductive cells join to form a new cell.
fertilization
meiosis
mitosis
gamete
- 14. Multiple Choice
A _______________ cell contains half the usual number of chromosomes.
dipolid
haploid
homologous
meiosis
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