Question
Which of the following would be the most sigificant between mitosis and meiosis?
A. Chromosomes are duplicated before mitosis
B. Meiosis is not followed by cytokinesis
C. Homologous Pairs of chromosomes are split up in meiosis.
D. Crossing over occurs in mitosis.
So far i got it down to A & C. I know d and b are wrong.If you can provide an explanation to why either A or C is right it would be greatly appreciated.
A. Chromosomes are duplicated before mitosis
B. Meiosis is not followed by cytokinesis
C. Homologous Pairs of chromosomes are split up in meiosis.
D. Crossing over occurs in mitosis.
So far i got it down to A & C. I know d and b are wrong.If you can provide an explanation to why either A or C is right it would be greatly appreciated.
Answers
A. Chromosomes are not split in meiosis. Half go to one cell and half to the other, giving you a haploid number of chromosomes.
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