Chapter 9.1, Problem 2LO

Summary Introduction

To describe:

The human life cycle.

Introduction:

The term life cycle in humans refers to as series of changes in sexually reproducing organism including all the reproductive events that takes place from one generation to the other. The life cycle of reproducing organism involves two altering stages- haplontic and diplontic.

In haplontic life cycle the organism possess multicellular haploid stage and single celled diploid stage whereas in diplontic life cycle the organism multicellular stage is diploid and single celled stage is haploid.