Mitosis and Meiosis
Mitosis
Classwork
1. Identify two differences between meiosis and mitosis.
2. Provide an example of a type of cell in the human body that would undergo mitosis.
3. Does cell division occur during interphase? Explain your answer.
4. Explain what occurs in the ‘S’ portion of interphase. Why is the ‘S’ sub-phase essential in preparation for mitosis.
5. In what way is the preparation that occurs during the ‘G1’ phase similar to what occurs during the ‘S’ phase.
6. Explain the importance of cytokinesis to the process of cell division.
7. What is a centrosome, and how is it significant to the process of mitosis?
8. How would you identify a cell based on appearance undergoing metaphase during mitosis?
9. How are prophase and telophase opposites?
10. Does the creation of a cell plate play a role in cytokinesis of plant or animal cells?
11. Explain the process of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer.
12. What stage of mitosis is the cell below experiencing? How do you know?
Homework
13. Provide two reasons for why cells would undergo mitosis.
14. What are the two major divisions of the cell cycle?
15. Identify the three ‘sub-phases’ of interphase, and explain the major goal of each sub-phase.
16. What is the difference between a chromosome and a chromatid?
17. What is the difference between cytokinesis and mitosis?
18. Explain the relationship between a kinetochore and the spindle fibers during mitosis.
19. Briefly describe what occurs during anaphase.
20. Why are vesicles important to the process of cytokinesis in plant cells?
21. In what type of cell would you find a cleavage furrow during cytokinesis?
22. It may be said that in plant cells, cytokinesis occurs from inside-out, while in animal cells the process occurs from the outside-in. Explain why this statement is true.
23. Compare anaphase to fishing. What similarities might exist between the two?
24. What is cloning?
25. Does an animal produced through SCNT resemble the organism that donated the nucleus or the organism that donated the egg cell?
26. What stage of mitosis is the cell below experiencing? How do you know?
Cell Cycle Control System
Classwork
27. Why do cells have a control system built into the cell cycle?
28. Explain the relationship between cancer and the cell cycle.
29. What is G0?
30. Explain what contact inhibition is and how it helps regulate cell division.
31. Is tumor metastasis usually related to benign or malignant tumors? Why does this have a negative effect on the body?
32. Explain the relationship between chemotherapy and mitosis. How does chemotherapy specifically affect mitosis?
33. Would a patient receiving chemotherapy or radiation for cancer treatment be more likely to exhibit bodily symptoms such as hair loss and nausea? Explain your answer.
34. Explain the value of stem cell therapy for treating different types of cancers.
35. Does an embryonic stem cell or an adult stem cell have a greater potential for differentiation? Explain your answer.
Homework
36. How many checkpoints exist throughout the cell cycle?
37. Mature human nerve cells exist at which phase of the cell cycle?
38. Explain the role that contact inhibition plays in regulating or not regulating cancer cells.
39. What is the difference between a benign and malignant tumor?
40. What differences exist between chemotherapy and radiation treatment?
41. A bone marrow transplant is most commonly used to treat which type of cancer?
42. Compare the checkpoints of a cell cycle to traffic lights. How are the two similar in function?
43. What is the difference between a stem cell that is pluripotent and one that is multipotent? Provide an example of a type of cell that would fall under each of these categories.
Meiosis
Classwork
44. What is the scientific term for a reproductive cell that utilizes meiosis for reproduction?
45. If n represents a haploid number of chromosomes, 2n would represent a _______________ number of chromosomes.
46. Provide a possible suggestion for what purpose a doctor would utilize a karyotype.
47. What is an allele? Provide two possible alleles for hair color in humans.
48. How many cells are produced through meiosis? How many chromosomes do each of these cells have in humans?
49. Explain how crossing over can increase the genetic diversity within a population through meiosis.
50. What is independent assortment? How does independent assortment affect genetic diversity?
51. What is nondisjunction?
52. Explain how you could use a karyotype to identify trisomy in an unborn child.
53. If Turner’s Syndrome is the result of nondisjunction causing monosomy of the sex chromosomes, what is the combination of sex chromosomes in an individual experiencing Turner’s Syndrome?
54. Predict the appearance of a karyotype of a zygote demonstrating polyploidy.
Homework
55. Do somatic cells contain a haploid or diploid number of chromosomes?
56. What are homologous chromosomes?
57. How would the karyotype of a female differ from the karyotype of a male?
58. Explain how the process of meiosis can reduce the number of chromosomes present in a daughter cell.
59. Does crossing over increase genetic diversity in somatic cells? Why or why not?
60. With the exception of the number of chromosomes present, what other cell division process does meiosis II resemble?
61. How can an error in meiosis potentially lead to birth defects?
62. What is aneuploidy? What are the two different possible results of a zygote exhibiting aneuploidy?
63. Is nondisjunction resulting in a zygote lacking a second sex chromosome always fatal? Explain your answer.
64. How does polyploidy affect plants differently than humans? Explain your answer.
65. How many chromosomes would be present in the karyotype of an individual who has trisomy 21?
Illustrations courtesy of www.macroevolution.net
Free Response
1. Mitosis and Meiosis are two distinct types of eukaryotic cellular reproduction. Compare and contrast them by responding to the prompts below:
a. When a cell undergoes mitosis, how many cells are produced and how does their chromosome number compare to the parent cell?
b. When a cell undergoes meiosis, how many cells are produced and how does their chromosome number compare to the parent cell?
c. List three reasons why a eukaryotic cell might undergo mitosis.
d. Why would a eukaryotic organism produce cells via meiosis?
2. Compare and contrast cancer cells and “normal” cells by responding to the prompts below:
a. Describe the primary difference between cellular reproduction in cancer cells and in non-cancerous cells.
b. What do tumors consist of and what are the specific differences between malignant and benign tumors?
3. Compare and contrast the two primary methods of cancer treatment by responding to the prompts below.
a. Radiation therapy is non-systemic but chemotherapy is systemic. Explain the difference between systemic and non-systemic.
b. Chemotherapy typically targets which structure found in the process of mitosis? How would the destruction of this structure affect mitosis?
c. Radiation typically targets which structure found in cells? How would this affect mitosis?
4. Below is an image that represents the chromosomes found within a human cell. Use this image to respond to the prompts below.
a. Is this the karyotype of a human somatic cell or a human gamete? Explain your response.
b. Does the karyotype above represent a male or a female? Explain your response.
c. Does this karyotype demonstrate any chromosomal abnormalities? If so, specify the type of abnormality; if not, why not?
5. The image below illustrates chromosomes during metaphase 1. The darker Xs represent the chromosomes from the mother, while the lighter Xs represents the chromosomes from the father. Use this illustration to respond to the prompts below.
http://www.vce.bioninja.com.au/aos-3-heredity/cell-reproduction/meiosis.html
a. What is the term for this variation in the way that chromosomes can line up during metaphase 1 of meiosis?
b. How does this lead to increased genetic variation in offspring?
Mitosis and Meiosis Answer Key
1. Mitosis has five stages, results in two identical diploid cells, occurs in somatic cells- Meiosis has 10 stages, results in four unique haploid cells, used to produce gametes
2. Any body cell, such as skin, hair, nails, etc
3. No. Interphase prepares the cell for cell division.
4. The chromosomes are replicated.
5. Organelles are duplicated during G1, chromosomes are duplicated during the S phase
6. Cytokinesis divides the cytoplasm, which contains the organelles and important chemicals and energy, making sure that both new cells contain adequate organelles and nutrients for functional survival.
7. A centrosome is a microtubule organizing center, and it is crucial to mitosis because the microtubules provide a framework for the chromosomes to move during the process.
8. The chromosomes would be lined up along the center of the cell
9. During prophase the nuclear envelope disappears, during telophase the envelope is reestablished
10. Plant cells
11. This is a type of cloning- the steps are as follows: Remove nucleus from egg cell, remove nucleus from somatic cell belonging to individual you want to clone, transfer nucleus into empty egg cell, implant new egg cell into carrier organism, ensure egg cell begins embryonic development and carries new cloned organism to term
12. Anaphase, the chromosomes are being pulled towards opposite poles of the cell
13. Repair damage, regenerate lost parts, grow in size, reproduce asexually
14. Interphase and mitotic phase
15. G1, S, G2- G1: grow, produce proteins, replicate organelles S: replicate DNA G2: finish growing, final preparations for mitosis
16. Chromatids are chromosomes that have been copied in preparation for mitosis
17. Cytokinesis is the separation of the cytoplasm and the creation of new cell walls and membranes, mitosis is the creation and separation of two nuclei
18. A kinetochore is a protein structure in the centromere connecting chromatids, the spindle fibers that will pull the chromatids apart attach at the kinetochore
19. The chromatids are pulled apart to separate poles of the cell during anaphase
20. Vesicles merge together to create a new cell membrane during cytokinesis in plant cells
21. Animal cell
22. In animal cells, the cleavage furrow pinches from the outside in to create two new cells, whereas in plant cells vesicles and the cell plate form inside the cell and eventually separate the cell into two new cells
23. The chromatids are the fish, with the spindle fibers being the fishing line and the centrosome being the pole, reeling the chromatids to opposite ends of the cell
24. Cloning is creating an exact replica of a chosen organism
25. The organism that donated the nucleus, because the nucleus contains the genetic material, the empty egg cell does not
26. Metaphase, the chromosomes are lined up in the middle of the cell
27. The control system is used to regulate cell growth and division, to ensure that cells reproduce at a rate that is conducive to overall organismal health
28. Cancer disables the ability of the cell to regulate the cell cycle. This causes affected cells to grow and divide uncontrollably, creating the tumors that are associated with the disease
29. G0 is a stage that non-dividing cells are perpetually stuck in, because they never pass the G1 checkpoint and proceed with division
30. Contact inhibition is a process that regulates cell division by stopping the cell cycle when a cell physically comes into contact with other cells. This prevents cells from dividing too rapidly.
31. Metastasis is usually associated with malignant tumors. This allows cancer cells to spread throughout the body much more rapidly.
32. Chemotherapy is used to slow cell division by disrupting the mitotic spindle used in mitosis. By disrupting mitosis, chemotherapy prevents both cancer cells and normal cells from dividing.
33. Chemotherapy. Since chemotherapy is more of a general medication, it affects both healthy and affected cells, resulting in systemic side effects.
34. Stem cell therapy is specifically used for treating cancers of the blood. Stem cells are particularly effective because they are undifferentiated cells that may develop into whatever type of cell is needed by the body. This could potentially supply a sick individual with a reserve of healthy cells for the affected body part(s).
35. Three
36. Embryonic- embryonic cells are pluripotent, which means they have the ability to differentiate into pretty much any cell in the body, whereas adult stem cells are multipotent, which means that their differentiating ability is limited
37. Nerve and muscle cells exist at G0, meaning they will not continuously grow and divide, but instead will stay in their existing state.
38. Contact inhibition causes cells to stop dividing when they physically contact another cell. Cancer cells do not exhibit contact inhibition, which is one of the reasons they will continuously divide out of control.
39. A benign tumor is non-life threatening or otherwise damaging; malignant tumors can metastasize and spread the cancer to other parts of the body, and can be life-threatening
40. Chemotherapy consists of a combination of medicines administered which will disrupt the reproduction process of cancerous and healthy cells in the body, whereas radiation treatment is used on localized areas of the body.
41. Blood cancers
42. Just as a traffic light controls whether vehicles can proceed or need to stop, a checkpoint controls whether the cell can divide, or if it must stop.
43. Pluripotent stem cells can differentiate into most other types of cell in the body, multipotent stem cells are limited in their differentiation abilities. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, adult stem cells, contained in organs that must regenerate lost cells or continue to grow, are multipotent.
44. Gamete (sperm or egg)
45. Diploid
46. Doctors can use karyotypes to diagnose chromosomal disorders by analyzing the number and shape of chromosomes
47. An allele is a alternative version of a gene. For example, you may have a brown allele or black allele for the hair color gene
48. One round of meiosis produces 4 daughter cells. In humans, each cell has 23 chromosomes
49. Crossing-over exchanges pieces of homologous chromosomes during each round of meiosis, ensuring that each cell produced through meiosis has a unique set of DNA
50. Independent Assortment is the fact that chromosomes align independently of each other during metaphase 1 of meiosis. This increases genetic diversity because the chromosomes will align differently through each round of meiosis, and with 23 pairs of chromosomes, there are 8 million different potential combinations of chromosomes
51. Nondisjunction is when chromosomes do not separate correctly during meiosis, resulting in gametes with an incorrect number of chromosomes.
52. Trisomy would be exhibited by identifying three chromosomes at one of the 23 locations in a karyotype
53. An individual with Turner’s syndrome would have XO, meaning she would have one X chromosome, and would lack a second sex chromosome. Monosomy indicates only one chromosome, and YO would be fatal.