Chapter 10, Problem 7TYU

Summary Introduction

To explain:

How one can tell that the cell in the Question 5 of Chapter 10 “Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles”in the textbook, is undergoing meiosis, not mitosis.

Introduction:

Cell division is the process of doubling the cell numbers. In multicellular organisms, including human two types of cell division occurs; (i) mitosis, in which the somatic cells are divided, (ii) meiosis, occurs only in germ line cells in which the reduction division takes place to make germ cells haploid.