Chapter 15 Meiosis & Sexual Reproduction

Chapter 15 Meiosis & Sexual Reproduction meiosis Both mitosis and meiosis involve: Diploid parent cell; Stages of interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase; In metaphase individual chromosomes ( meiosis The duplicated chromosomes align on a second spindle, and the sister chromatids separate to produce cells with a haploid DNA content Meiosis thus consists of a

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meiosis MEIOSIS I: Separates homologous chromosomes PROPHASE I METAPHASE I ANAPHASE I Meiosis 1 Figure TELOPHASE I AND CYTOKINESIS PROPHASE Meiosis is the specialized type of cell division by which sexual organisms produce gametes In most organisms, meiosis produces haploid gametes from diploid