2. What are GAMETES? Are they haploid or diploid? Through what process are they produced? Gameteshave how many alleles for each gene?sex, or reproductive, cell containing only one set of dissimilar chromosomes, or half thegenetic material necessary to form a complete organism, it is haploid, it is produced bymeiosis, they have one allele.3. If an organism's gametes contain 25 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will their somatic (bodycells) contain?|A cell containing 30 chromosomes undergoes mitosis. How many chromosomes will each daughter cellcontain? If the cell had undergone meiosis instead, how many chromosomes would the daughter cells4.contain?acer

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2. What are GAMETES? Are they haploid or diploid? Through what process are they produced? Gametes
have how many alleles for each gene?
sex, or reproductive, cell containing only one set of dissimilar chromosomes, or half the
genetic material necessary to form a complete organism, it is haploid, it is produced by
meiosis, they have one allele.
3. If an organism's gametes contain 25 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will their somatic (body
cells) contain?|
A cell containing 30 chromosomes undergoes mitosis. How many chromosomes will each daughter cell
contain? If the cell had undergone meiosis instead, how many chromosomes would the daughter cells
4.
contain?
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