Campbell Biology in Focus (2nd Edition)
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Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Jane B. Reece
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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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Ch. 10.1 - MAKE CONNECTIONS Using what you know of gene...Ch. 10.1 - How does an asexually reproducing eukaryotic...Ch. 10.1 - WHAT IF? A horticulturalist breeds orchids, trying...Ch. 10.2 - Prob. 2CCCh. 10.2 - Prob. 3CCCh. 10.2 - WHAT IF? A certain eukaryote lives as a...Ch. 10.3 - WHAT IF? After the synaptonemal complex...Ch. 10.4 - Prob. 1CCCh. 10.4 - WHAT IF? If maternal and paternal chromatids have...Ch. 10 - A human cell containing 22 autosomes and a Y...
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