Multiple Choice
How many total daughter cells are produced when a single cell undergoes meiosis?
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9. Mitosis and Meiosis
Meiosis
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Which of the following is sometimes referred to as a reductive division?
A
Mitosis
B
Meiosis II
C
Cytokinesis
D
Meiosis I
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Understand the term 'reductive division': it refers to a type of cell division where the chromosome number is halved, reducing the diploid number (2n) to the haploid number (n).
Recall the stages of cell division: Mitosis results in two identical diploid daughter cells, so it does not reduce chromosome number.
Consider Meiosis II: it resembles mitosis and separates sister chromatids but does not reduce chromosome number further; the cells remain haploid.
Analyze Meiosis I: homologous chromosomes are separated, which halves the chromosome number from diploid to haploid, making it a reductive division.
Confirm that Cytokinesis is the physical division of the cytoplasm and does not affect chromosome number, so it is not a reductive division.
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