Your father received 23 chromosomes from his mother and 23 chromosomes from his father. How many of your paternal grandfather’s chromosomes did you receive?

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1. Your father received 23 chromosomes from his mother and 23 chromosomes from his father. How many of your paternal grandfather’s chromosomes did you receive?

2. Enlargement of the spermatogonium and oogonium can be observed in the period of maturation. True or False?

3. Why do gametes contain one of each kind of chromosome?

a. Crossing over occurs during prophase I.

b. Only one replication of DNA occurs during meiosis.

c. The homologous chromosome separate during meiosis.

d. The parental cells contain only one of each kind of chromosome.

4. In what period wherein prolonged prophase is the particular process involved?

a. period of growth

b. 1st reduction division

c. period of multiplication

d. 2nd reduction division

5. If a cell has 12 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will each of the daughter cells have after mitosis?

6. Somatic cells contain haploid number of chromosomes and undergo mitosis. True or Flase?

7. In which of the following period wherein primary ovocytes are produced?

a.2nd reduction division

b. period of growth

c. 1st reduction division

d. period of multiplication

8. In what period of gametogenesis where synapsis can be observed?

a.2nd reduction division

b. period of growth

c. 1st reduction division

d. period of multiplication

9. Mendel discovered principles of inheritance because he?

a. Ignored all characteristics except a few markedly contrasting ones in which he studied.

b. Observed simultaneously all of the many characteristics in which the parents differed.

c. Studied only the offspring obtained from a single mating.

10. In trihybrid crosses, random segregation and independent assortment still apply. True or False?

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