Campbell Biology in Focus (2nd Edition)
Campbell Biology in Focus (2nd Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321962751
Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Jane B. Reece
Publisher: PEARSON
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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.

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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.

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