Question

• 1. What is the difference between a gamete and a zygote?

• 2. Are gametes haploid or diploid? Are zygotes haploid or diploid?
• 3. What occurs at fertilization?
• 4. Define diploid and haploid.
• 5. What characterizes sexual reproduction?
• 6. What characterizes asexual reproduction?
• 7. What type of reproduction occurs in prokaryotes?
• 8. What is somatic tissue? What is germ-line tissue?
• 9. What do somatic cell lines and germ-cell producing cell lines have in common? What makes them different?
• 10. What happens in each stage of Meiosis I and Meiosis I1?
• 11. How does each stage of Meiosis compare to Mitosis?
• 12. Describe three ways that meiosis contributes to genetic diversity in a species?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

A gamete is a haploid reproductive cell that fuses with another gamete of opposite strain to form a diploid

zygote.

A zygote is a cell formed by the fusion of the male and female gamete before it undergoes division.

gametes are haploid while a zygote is diploid.

There is exchange of genetic material during sexual reproduction and fusion of gametes. Meiosis is also involved.

The opposite occurs in asexual reproduction and mitosis is involved instead.

Asexual reproduction is common in prokaryotes eg bacteria.