Question

Your friend shows you the image below and claims that it shows the process of mitosis. why is he or she wrong? (3 reasons)

Answer 1

The process shown above is actually meiosis. In mitosis the cell splits once, but the image shows it splitting twice. The end result of mitosis are body cells, but the result shown here are reproductive sperm cells. Finally, when the cells split into halves, only 1/2 of the DNA is put into the new cell unlike mitosis.

Answer 2

1. The cell splits itself twice

2. 4 resulting sperm cells are made

3. Only half of the DNA is kept per cell

Step-by-step explanation:

Mitosis only has one diving phase that occurs only on body cells, which makes it have 2 daughter cells. This, on the other hand, has 4 daughter cells. If you notice, after the third set of bubbles, the genome(DNA) is split among 4 cells.