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L9-10: Mitosis, Meiosis and Sex Flashcards

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1
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Where does mitosis take place?

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In somatic tissue

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Why is mitosis necessary in humans?

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Embryonic development
Replacement of skin cells
Wound healing
Production of reticulocytes

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What are the phases of the cell cycle?

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G1, S, G2 and mitosis

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What are the key components of mitosis?

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Kinetochore, spindle fibres, centriole, centrosome

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What is the centriole made up of?

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Composed of nine groups of microtubules that serve as foci for the generation of the mitotic spindle fibres

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What happens in prophase?

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Chromosomes condense
Centrioles divide and move apart

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What happens in prometaphase?

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Chromosomes are recognisable as double structures
Centrioles reach opposite poles
Spindle fibres form and attach to kinetochore

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What happens in metaphase?

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Centromeres align on the metaphase plate

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What happens in anaphase?

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Centromere split and the daughter chromosomes migrate to the opposite poles

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What happens in telophase and cytokinesis?

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Daughter chromosomes arrive at poles, chromosomes decondense and nuclear envelope reforms, cytokinesis cell division commences

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11
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How does genetic exchange occur?

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Via crossing over as a chiasma forms

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What are the phases of meiosis I & II?

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I: Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase
II: Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase

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What are the stages in prophase I called?

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Leptonema
Zygonema
Pachynema
Diplonema
Diakinesis

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What takes place in prophase I?

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Duplicated chromosomes start to condense, synapsis begins, synapsis complete and crossing over takes place, synaptonemal complex disappearing and chiasma visible and bivalent ready for metaphase

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What is the synaptonemal complex?

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A nucleoprotein ‘zipper’ that forms between the paired homologous chromosomes

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What takes place in meiosis I?

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MI: Alignment of tetrads on metaphase plate
AI: One half of the tetrad migrates to one pole, other half to the opposite pole (disjunction)
TI: Nuclear membranes form around dyads and cells divide

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What happens in meiosis II?

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PII: each dyad is composed of a pair of sister chromatids
MII: alignment of dyads on metaphase plate
AII: one half of dyad migrates to one pole the other half to the opposite pole
TII&C: four haploid daughter cells

18
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What is non-disjunction?

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When the chromosomes do not separate which forms aneuploid gametes (not an exact multiple of the haploid number)

19
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What diseases/syndromes can be caused by human autosomal trisomies?

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Warkany syndrome 2
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Patau Syndrome
Edwards Syndrome
Down Syndrome

20
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Why is sexual reproduction more advantageous than asexual reproduction?

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Results in production of recombinant genotypes
Makes population better able to deal with changes in environment

21
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What is the difference of natural selection in sexual and asexual reproduction?

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Sexual strains have a faster growth in harsh conditions in comparison to asexual strains

22
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What is heterogametic sex?

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When males produce the unlike gametes (not always male)

23
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What is homogametic sex?

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Females production of uniform gametes (not always female)

24
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What are Klinefelter and Turner syndromes?

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Variation in the number of X chromosomes as a result of nondisjunction which results in aneuploidy

25
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What did the Klinefelter and Turner karyotypes determine?

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That the Y chromosome determines male characteristics

26
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What are the features of the Y chromosome?

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PARs (pseudoautosomal regions), MSY (male specific region of the Y) and SRY (sex determining region Y) - produces testis determining factor (TDF)

27
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What is dosage compensation?

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The mechanism that keeps X-linked gene product doses similar between males and females

28
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What is a Barr body?

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It is a method of darkly staining the nucleus of female cells

29
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What is the Lyon hypothesis?

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Inactivation is random at an early point in development
Once inactivated all the progeny cells have the same X-chromosome inactivated

30
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What is an example of X- Mosaicism in humans?

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Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, males have no sweat glands and females have a mosaic of decors with and without sweat glands around the body

31
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How is the X chromosome inactivated?

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At a site called XIC, key products are non-coding RNA transcripts (Xist and Tsix)
Xist coats X chromosome from spreading outwards so its densely packed into heterochromatin

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