Answer all of the following questions to the best of your ability in complete sentences in the space below and/or on the back. As always, answer thoroughly using details and vocabulary from your notes.
1. How is meiosis related to sexual reproduction? For example, could sexual reproduction happen normally without meiosis? Explain and support your answer by using details and vocabulary.
2. Homologous chromosomes can cross and swap pieces during prophase I. This helps create sperm and egg cells that are unique from the cells of their parents. How is this crossing over and swapping process related to evolution? Explain and support your answer by using details and vocabulary.
3. You are a human and your body cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes, giving each a total of 46 chromosomes. You use meiosis to produce sperm or egg cells (depending on your sex).
a. How many cells are made after one cell goes through all of meiosis once?
b. How many chromosomes are found in each sperm or egg?
4. Look at the image and . . .
a. identify the stage of meiosis.
b. describe what is going to happen next to the chromosomes in the image.
5. How is meiosis connected to metabolism?
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