A diploid organism has five pairs of chromosomes in each somatic cell. Assuming that no crossing over occurs, how many genetically distinct gametes can this organism produce?

Q: How many different types of gamete can be formed from an organism with the genotype Aa Bb cc DD Ee…

A: The reproductive cells of an individual are called gametes or sex cells. These are the haploid…

Q: If nondisjunction occurs in a chromosome pair, what will be its effect on the gametes and the…

A: Nondisjunction occurs when homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids fail to divide properly…

Q: Bob has XXY chromosomes (Klinefelter syndrome) and is color blind. His mother and father have normal…

A: Colorblindness is an X-linked recessive disorder. Klinefelter syndrome is the presence of two copies…

Q: if cell division during gametogenesis is non-meiotic, what is the consequence to the future…

A: BASIC INFORMATION CELL DIVISION  It is necessary for all the cells In this the parent cell divides…

Q: During meiosis when crossing over occurs in a paracentric inversion loop, what percent of the…

A: Meiosis is the process of cell division that produces four daughter cells from a single cell. These…

Q: An individual heterozygous for a reciprocal translocation possesses the following chromosomes: A B •…

A: Cell division is a procedure in which a parent cell divides into two daughter cells. The cell cycles…

Q: that a gamete underwent meiotic non-disjunction. Explain two possible outcomes for the zygote that…

A: In normal anaphase that occurs during the cell division, sister chromatids are pulled by…

Q: What phase of mitotic interphase is missing from meiotic interkinesis

A: The process in which duplication of the cell occurs and the resultant cell will be genetically the…

Q: The separation of homologous chromosomes in meiosis occurs in what phase?

A: Usually the separation of homologous chromosome always occurs at the Anaphase stage of Meiosis I.So…

Q: Why do the cells produced by meiosis undergo two nuclear divisions but only have a haploid number of…

A: Meiosis is a cell division that occurs at the time of the formation of gametes. It is divided into…

Q: A diploid organism is heterozygous for 4 loci, how many types of gametescan be produced?

A: Loci refer to the fixed position on a chromosome. Heterozygous organisms have different alleles for…

Q: A cell has four pairs of chromosomes. Assuming that crossing over does not occur, what is the…

A: Meiosis is the type of nuclear division in which haploid cells are formed from the diploid cells. It…

Q: Although triple-X human females typically have normal offspring, what kinds of gametes, with respect…

A: Introduction In humans, the X chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes, the other is the Y…

Q: Which event occurs only during prophase I of the first meiotic division?

A: A parent cell splits into two or three daughter cells in the course of cell division. Normally, cell…

Q: Why does meiosis produce cells with half the required genetic material?

A: In the process of meiosis , at the end the produced reproductive and gamete each have 23 genetically…

Q: In an organism with 52 chromosomes, how many chromatids would be expected in each cell after the…

A: Cell division is the cycle by which a parent cell isolates into at least two daughter cells. Cell…

Q: In which parent and during which meiotic division did non-disjunction occur? If there is more than…

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Q: A couple comes into a fertility clinic. A chromosome preparation is made for each and the male is…

A: Introduction :- A karyotype is a collection of all metaphase chromosomes in a species' or individual…

Q: What is the end result of crossing over?

A: Crossing over allows the exchange of genetic material and forms unique combinations of alleles. This…

Q: Why does nondisjunction in meiosis I results in a higher proportion of faulty gametes than…

A: Of all the chromosomal disorders, the most readily recognisable from a karyogram are chromosome…

Q: Why must a gamete have only one-half the number of chromosomes found in body cells?

A: Meiosis is a reductional division. It consists of two stages: Meiosis 1 : It is an reductional…

Q: Assuming that independence assortment occurs during meiosis what types of gametes will form…

A: Independent assortment is the separation of gene pairs independently from the other gene pairs.…

Q: How are chain chromosomes formed and will the formation of this result to sterile or fertile…

A: Although seen rarely among vertebrates, chain chromosomes are a phenomenon that can be seen to…

Q: How many types of gametes can be produced by the following type of genotypes? 1.TtRRBBaaDd…

A: The number of gametes created is concluded by the number of heterozygous alleles present in the…

Q: In what phase of meiosis is chromosome recombination most common?

A: Introduction :- Meiosis is a process in which a single cell divides twice to produce four cells with…

Q: The period between meiosis I and meiosis II is called interphase II.Does DNA replication take place…

A: DNA replication is a complex process in which DNA makes an exact copy of itself. It takes place in…

Q: Considering an organism with three pairs of homologous chromosomes, how many different kinds of…

A: Answer : Since there are 3 pairs of homologous chromosomes, therefore  2N = 6 N = 3  to Calculate…

Q: If this happens in Meiosis I, it results in two gametes that are n + 1 and two gametes that are n -1

A: The result of a normal mitosis or meiosis is that all the progeny cells receive a complete set of…

Q: Crossing over occurs during the __________________________ phase of meiosis.

A: A cell cycle is a series of event that occurs in a cell to divide it into two cells by the process…

Q: How is the interval between the two meiotic divisions different from interphase?

A: Mitosis and meiosis are the two ways that cells divide and reproduce.

Q: A woman who is homozygous for normal color vision mates with a colorblind male. they produce a…

A: Color blindness is an X-linked recessive genetic disorder. In this disease, the person has less…

Q: If the DNA content of a diploid cell in the G1 phase of the cell cycle is X, then the DNA content of…

A: The cell cycle is the name we give the process through which cells replicate and make two new cells.…

Q: In a cell with four pairs of homologous chromosomes, how many combinations of chromosomes are…

A: chromosomes are condensed form of dna . they are formed via wraping the long dna molecules around…

Q: A chicken has 78 chromosomes in its somatic cells. How many chromosomes did the chicken inherit from…

A: Chromosomes are present in the cells as sets and the number of sets of these chromosomes contribute…

Q: At what stage of meiosis (I or II) does crossing-over occur?

A: Crossing-over is a process that occurs during meiosis (I or II) whereby homologous chromosomes…

Q: How many different types of gamete can be formed from an organism with the genotype AaBbccDDEeff,…

A: Mendel performed a series of experiments to study the transmission of traits from parents to their…

Q: Which of the four daughter cells shown at right would produce an offspring with trisomy 3 after it…

A: The correct option is explained below.

Q: What is crossing over? How is meiosis related to this phenomenon?

A: Linked alleles, such as A-b and a-B, combine to form the gametes A-b and a-B, which are responsible…

Q: During meiosis, does random assortment occur before or after crossing-over?

A: Meiosis is the cell division that includes meiosis I and meiosis II without any DNA replication…

Q: What does the sex chromosome genotype XO produce in humans?

A: Step 1 Allosomic genetic determination of sex is determined by distinct chromosomes called sex…

Q: What does each letter in the crossing over in meiosis represent? The picture below is the example of…

A: A homologous chromosome refers to a pair of chromosomes that are inherited from each parent. They…

Q: Trisomy 21, or Down's syndrome, is the result of which event occurring during the meiotic process?

A: Ans. A nucleus, where genetic material is contained in genes, is located on every cell in the human.…

Q: gametes (egg or sperm cells), where in the body would you expect this cell to be located?

A: Gamete production takes place for sexual reproduction.

Q: What two processes unique to meiosis are responsible for genetic variation? At what point in meiosis…

A: Meiosis is a specialized type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, creating…

Q: What phase of meiosis does • Homologous chromosomes enter synapsis?

A: Meiosis I In meiosis I, homologous chromosomes are separated into two cells such that there is one…

Q: Since the goal of making haploid gametes is to create cells with only one full set of chromosomes…

A: The cell division in which parent cell divides into four daughter cells with half the chromosome…

Q: what is Meiotic Nondisjunction?

A: Meiosis is also known as a double division that occurs in a diploid cell and gives rise to four…

Q: what event takes place during meiosis prophase (as opposed to mitosis prophase) that makes it…

A: Cell division is splitting phenomenon which comprises of splitting of parent cell and results in…

Q: How is anaphase II different from anaphase I in meiosis?

A: The type of cell division in which the chromosome number is reduced to half is termed as meiosis.…