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Meiosis

Meiosis. The body preparing cells for reproduction. The process of forming haploid cells from diploid cells. Haploid = 1 set of DNA Diploid = both sets of DNA (Mom and Dad) .

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Meiosis

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  1. Meiosis The body preparing cells for reproduction. The process of forming haploid cells from diploid cells. Haploid = 1 set of DNA Diploid = both sets of DNA (Mom and Dad)

  2. During the formation of gametes, the number of chromosomes is reduced by half, and returned to the full amount when the two gametes fuse during fertilization.

  3. Gametes • A sex cell • Egg • Sperm • Haploid. One set of DNA

  4. Ploidy • a term referring to the number of sets of chromosomes. • Haploid organisms/cells have only one set of chromosomes = n I • Diploid organisms are those with two (di) sets = 2n II • Human beings

  5. Chromosomes that carry the same genes are termed homologous chromosomes. • The alleles on homologous chromosomes may differ. IIII

  6. Meiosis • reduces the number of sets of chromosomes by half, so that when gametic recombination (fertilization)(egg meets sperm) occurs the ploidy (# of chromosomes) of the parents will be reestablished. • (Egg=1 set of dna)+(sperm=1 set of dna) = zygote (baby) = 2 sets of dna

  7. Two successive nuclear divisions occur, Meiosis I (Reduction) and Meiosis II (Division).Meiosis produces 4 haploid cells. Mitosis produces 2 diploid cells.The old name for meiosis was reduction/ division. Meiosis I reduces the ploidy level from 2n to n (reduction) while Meiosis II divides the remaining set of chromosomes in a mitosis-like process (division).

  8. Stages of Meiosis • Prophase 1 • Metaphase1 • Anaphase 1 • Telophase 1 • Prophase 2 • Metaphase2 • Anaphase 2 • Telophase 2 For each phase you will write the: Name Picture Label 3 parts Description

  9. Prophase 1 • Events of Prophase I are similar to those in Prophase of mitosis: chromatin condenses into chromosomes, the nucleolus dissolves, nuclear membrane is disassembled, and the spindle apparatus forms.

  10. Metaphase I • when tetrads line-up along the equator of the spindle. Spindle fibers attach to the centromere region of each homologous chromosome pair. Other metaphase events as in mitosis.

  11. Anaphase I • when the tetrads separate, and are drawn to opposite poles by the spindle fibers. The centromeres in Anaphase I remain intact.

  12. Telophase I • similar to Telophase of mitosis, except that only one set of (replicated) chromosomes is in each "cell". Depending on species, new nuclear envelopes may or may not form. Some animal cells may have division of the centrioles during this phase.

  13. Prophase II • nuclear envelopes (if they formed during Telophase I) dissolve, and spindle fibers reform. All else is as in Prophase of mitosis. Indeed Meiosis II is very similar to mitosis.

  14. Metaphase II • similar to mitosis, with spindles moving chromosomes into equatorial area and attaching to the opposite sides of the centromeres in the kinetochore region.

  15. Anaphase II • centromeres split and the former chromatids (now chromosomes) are segregated into opposite sides of the cell.

  16. Telophase II • identical to Telophase of mitosis. Cytokinesis separates the cells.

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