Mastering bio assignment chapter Qs - Assignment #3 (, 15, 16)

4 important questions on Mastering bio assignment chapter Qs - Assignment #3 (, 15, 16)

1. Identify all possible products of meiosis in plant and animal life cycles.


a. spores
b. multicellular adult organisms
c. gametophytes
d gametes (sperm and eggs)

In most animal life cycles, the products of meiosis are gametes
In plants, the products of meiosis are spores

2. Two sister chromatids are joined at the centromere prior to meiosis. Which statement is correct?

a. The cell that contains these sister chromatids must be diploid after meiosis I.
b. These chromatids make up a diploid chromosome.
c. The two sister chromatids stay together all through meiosis II.
d. Unless there was a mutation, the two sister chromatids are identical

answer: d. The chromosome is duplicated during DNA replication, and the formed sister chromatids are kept together by cohesion molecules.

3. a) Which processes lead to most genetic variation in sexually reproducing organisms?

a. Cytokinesis
b. Crossing over
c. Random fertilization
d. independent assortment of chromosomes in meiosis

Answer: bcd
  1. Crossing over of chromosomes in meiosis
  2. Independent of assortment of chromosomes in meiosis
  3. Random fertilization
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3. b) Which of these gametes contains one or more recombinant chromosomes?
a.         A and C      
b.         B and C      
c.         A and D      
d.         D and E      
e.         A and B
Gamete arrangement after meiosis with a crossing over. A cell contains one large blue chromosome, one large red chromosome, one small blue chromosome, and one small red chromosome. This cell can form 8 types of gametes, 5 of them are labeled A through E. Gamete A contains 1 long blue and 1 short blue chromosomes. Gamete B contains 1 long blue and 1 short blue chromosomes; both have red ends. Gamete C contains 1 long red and 1 short red chromosomes; both have blue ends. Gamete D contains 1 long red and 1 short red chromosomes. Gamete E contains 1 long red and 1 short blue chromosomes.

Answer: B and C
Each of the chromosomes in gametes B and C are composed of material derived from both parents.

Recombinant chromosomes produce parental gametes and recombinant gametes

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