Multiple Choice
During meiosis, how many times does DNA replication occur before the cell divisions?
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9. Mitosis and Meiosis
Meiosis
Multiple Choice
If three diploid cells each undergo meiosis to completion, how many haploid daughter cells are produced in total (assuming no nondisjunction or cell loss)?
A
6
B
3
C
24
D
12
Verified step by step guidance1
Recall that a diploid cell contains two sets of chromosomes and undergoes meiosis to produce haploid cells, which have one set of chromosomes.
Understand that meiosis consists of one round of DNA replication followed by two rounds of cell division, resulting in four haploid daughter cells from each diploid parent cell.
Since each diploid cell produces 4 haploid cells after meiosis, multiply the number of diploid cells by 4 to find the total haploid cells produced.
Set up the calculation as: total haploid cells = number of diploid cells \(\times\) 4, which is 3 \(\times\) 4 in this problem.
Perform the multiplication to find the total number of haploid daughter cells produced after meiosis of the three diploid cells.
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