Fertilisation Flashcards
1
Q
What happens during fetilisation?
A
During fetilisation, a male gamete and a female gamete fuse together to produce a single body cell
2
Q
What is the name of that single body cell?
A
A zygote
3
Q
What do gametes have?
A
Only half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell
4
Q
What does the zygote produce?
A
One whole set of chromosomes
5
Q
What is within each new pair of chromosomes?
A
One chromosome from the father
One chromosome from the mother
6
Q
What does the zygote then divide by?
A
Mitosis
7
Q
And what is produced?
A
A cluster of cells
8
Q
What is the name of the cluster of cells?
A
An Embryo
9
Q
What does the embryo continue to do?
A
Divide by mitosis, after which the cells have specialised, until birth as a fully developed baby
