Multiple Choice
In meiosis, a single diploid parent cell undergoes two successive divisions to form how many daughter cells?
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9. Mitosis and Meiosis
Meiosis
Multiple Choice
In typical animal meiosis beginning with one diploid germ cell, how many daughter cells are produced at the end of meiosis II (before any post-meiotic differentiation)?
A
Four haploid daughter cells
B
Eight haploid daughter cells
C
Four diploid daughter cells
D
Two haploid daughter cells
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Recall that meiosis consists of two consecutive divisions: meiosis I and meiosis II, starting from one diploid germ cell.
Understand that meiosis I is a reductional division where homologous chromosomes separate, resulting in two haploid cells, each with duplicated chromosomes.
Recognize that meiosis II is an equational division similar to mitosis, where sister chromatids separate in each haploid cell produced from meiosis I.
Calculate the total number of daughter cells after meiosis II by considering that each of the two haploid cells divides again, resulting in twice as many cells.
Conclude that the final daughter cells are haploid because the chromosome number was halved during meiosis I, and no further reduction occurs in meiosis II.
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