UA BSC 108 EXAM TWO STUDY GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+

UA BSC 108 EXAM TWO STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+

⩥ Haploid cells. Answer: A cell containing only one set of 23
chromosomes (n)


⩥ Diploid cells. Answer: A cell containing two sets of 23 chromosomes
(2n), one set inherited from each parent.


⩥ Gametes (sperm and egg cells) are Haploid or Diploid cells?. Answer:
Haploid cells


⩥ Gametes (sperm and egg cells) are produced during?. Answer: meiosis


⩥ Gametes (sperm and egg cells) fuse during?. Answer: fertilization


⩥ Gametes (sperm and egg cells) produce what during fertilization?.
Answer: diploid zygote (fertilized egg)


⩥ What is created from the diploid zygote (fertilized egg)?. Answer:
Mitosis and development creates a multicellular diploid adult

, ⩥ Where does meiosis occur in males?. Answer: in the testes as part of
spermatogenesis (sperm production)


⩥ Where does meiosis occur in females?. Answer: in the ovaries as part
of oogenesis (production of eggs)


⩥ Meiosis reduces the number of chromosome sets from diploid to
haploid by?. Answer: dividing a diploid parent cell into 4 haploid
daughter cells in two consecutive divisions


⩥ Stages of Meiosis. Answer: Prophase 1, Metaphase 1, Anaphase 1,
Telophase 1, and cytokinesis


⩥ Stages of Meiosis II. Answer: Prophase II, Metaphase II, Anaphase II,
Telophase II, and cytokinesis


⩥ prophase II. Answer: The first phase of meiosis II- Identical to mitotic
prophase, except that the number of chromosomes was reduced by half
during meiosis I


⩥ When does DNA replicate?. Answer: before meiosis I, during the S or
synthesis phase of interphase


⩥ DNA does not replicate again before?. Answer: meiosis II