Why don’t you look and act
EXACTLY
like either one of your
biological
parents or siblings?
•Sexual= egg and sperm
•Most animals
•Asexual=produces offspring
that are identical to the
parent•Binary Fission- bacteria
•Fragmentation-
•Budding- yeast, anemones
SEXUAL VS. ASEXUAL
REPRODUCTION
•Leads to a species
•Produces haploid cells used in
reproduction
•Creates
•IMPORTANT TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE
SPECIES
PURPOSE OF
MEIOSIS
•Two separate divisions
•Produces four haploid (n) cells
•Begins with one diploid (2·n)
cell
•Meiosis
I
•Meiosis
II
MEIOSI
S
BEFORE
MEIOSIS:
•INTERPHASE is when DNA is
replicated
•Why does it duplicate?
•Homologous chromosomes (the original
from each parent and its replication)
pair with each other = called a tetrad
•Crossing over
MEIOSIS 1: PROPHASE
1
•Occurs anywhere on chromosomes
•Exchange of genetic material =traits in
Prophase I
•AKA genetic recombination
CROSSING
OVER
•The tetrad lines up in the middle
•(In mitosis, each chromosome lines up
in the middle)
MEIOSIS 1: METAPHASE
1
•Chromatids DO NOT separate
•Each homologous chromosome (with 2
chromatids) goes to opposite poles
(centrioles) along the spindle fibers.
•This is called Mendel’s Law of
Independent Assortment
•(In mitosis the chromatids DO separate
and go to opposite poles)
MEIOSIS 1: ANAPHASE
1
•2 new nuclei are formed
MEIOSIS 1: TELOPHASE
1
•The parent cell has divided into two
new haploid cells
•Each cell has one of the homologous
chromosomes.
•(In mitosis each new cell has one of
each identical chromosome)
MEIOSIS 1:
CYTOKINESIS
MEIOSIS II: PROPHASE
II•The DNA does not replicate
•The cells are haploid (n)
•Chromosomes line up at the
equator
MEIOSIS II: METAPHASE
II
•Chromosomes split
•One of each pair pulled to opposite
poles
MEIOSIS II: ANAPHASE
II
•Two new nuclei are formed from the 2
new daughter cells in MEIOSIS I
MEIOSIS II: TELOPHASE
II