Chapter 3: Cell Division

1. ________________ only occurs in gonad to produce gametes.

a) Mitosis
b) Meiosis
c) Mitosis and Meiosis
d) Interphase

2. Which of the following is mitosis NOT used for?

a) Fetal development during gestation
b) Repair of a wound in multicellular organisms
c) Production of gametes
d) Binary fission in unicellular organisms
3. During which stage of mitosis do the centromeres split?
a) Anaphase
b) Metaphase
c) Prophase
d) Telophase

4. During which stage of meiosis do the sister chromatids begin to move towards opposite poles?
a) Anaphase I
b) Anaphase II
c) Anaphase
d) Metaphase I

5. During which stage of meiosis tetrad line up at the equator?

a) Metaphase I
b) Anaphase I
c) Metaphase II
d) Anaphase II

6. In both mitosis and meiosis, sister chromatids separate, but there are __, ______ daughter nuclei
produced by meiosis compared to __, ______ daughter nuclei by mitosis.

a) 2, diploid 4, haploid

b) 4, diploid 2, haploid

c) 2, haploid 4, diploid

d) 4, haploid 2, diploid

7. During which stage of cell divisions does the nuclear envelope begin to disappear?
I. Prophase
II. Metaphase I
III. Prophase I
IV. Prophase II

a) I and II
b) II and III
c) I and III
d) III and IV

8. When __________ occurs between non-sister chromatids, genetic materials exchange between
chromosomes provides a new combination of genes that are different from either parent.
a) Crossing over
b) Synapsis
c) Cytokinesis
d) Chiasmata
9. Each chromosome is made up of identical halves called __________.
a) Centromeres
b) Centrosomes
c) Chromatids
d) Cytokinesis

10. If there are 46 centromeres during mitosis of simple squamous epithelium, how many chromosomes
are present in the cell?
a) 23
b) 46
c) 92
d) 184

11. The union of a sperm cell and an egg cell results in the developing embryo having cells with a
complete number of chromosomes. To accomplish this, each of the gamete cells has to have a
______ set of chromosomes.
a) Haploid
b) Diploid
c) Triploid
d) Tetraploid
ANSWER:

1. B
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. A
6. D
7. C
8. A
9. C
10. B
11. A