2.2.3 - 2.2.5

Question 1

what is a cytogeneticist?

Answer 1

someone who studies chromosomes and impact on cells

Question 2

what is a karyotype?

Answer 2

visual rep of someone’s complete set of chromosomes, organized

Question 3

what’s mitosis?

Answer 3

cell division

Question 4

what’s meiosis?

Answer 4

halves chromosomes, cell division that happens in sexual reproduction creating gametes (sperm or egg)

Question 5

mitosis vs meiosis

Answer 5

both are cell division, mitosis results in two identical cells while meiosis results in four genetically distinct cells. mitosis for growth meiosis for sex stuff

Question 6

what is a gamete?

Answer 6

reproductive cell, sex cell (sperm/egg)

Question 7

what does crossing over mean?

Answer 7

where two chromosomes that carry the same genes (homologous) exhange genes during meiosis, results in unique chromatids

Question 8

what is nondisjunction?

Answer 8

when a pair of homologous chromosomes has failed to separate at anaphase so both chromosomes pass to same daughter cell