Quiz about Mitosis/Meiosis, Asexual/Sexual Reproduction

Question 1

What is the type of cell division associated with sexual reproduction?

Accepted Answer

Meiosis

Answer

Mitosis

Question 2

An organism that has been reproduced by sexual reproduction received ____________ of its chromosomes from the male parent.

Accepted Answer

50%

Answer

4

Answer

25%

Answer

100%

Question 3

These are long strands of DNA in the nucleus that control the traits of an organism.

Accepted Answer

Chromosomes

Answer

Gene

Answer

Allele

Question 4

During mitosis the parent cell produces:

Accepted Answer

2 daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell.

Answer

2 daughter cells with the half the number of chromosomes as the parents cell.

Answer

4 daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell.

Answer

4 daughter cells with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.

Question 5

During meiosis the parent cell produces:

Accepted Answer

4 daughter cells with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.

Answer

2 daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell.

Answer

2 daughter cells with the half the number of chromosomes as the parents cell.

Answer

4 daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell.

Question 6

A fruit fly has 8 chromosomes like in the picture above. Which answer correctly shows the results of a fruit fly cell going through mitosis?

Accepted Answer

Option A is correct

Answer

B.

Answer

C.

Answer

D.

Question 7

A fruit fly has 8 chromosomes like in the picture above. Which answer correctly shows the results of a fruit fly cell going through meiosis?

Accepted Answer

Option D is correct

Answer

A.

Answer

B.

Answer

C.

Question 8

What is the type of reproduction that only requires one parent?

Accepted Answer

Asexual

Answer

Sexual

Question 9

Which type of reproduction results in diversity because the offspring are a combination of the parents and genetically different?

Accepted Answer

Sexual

Answer

Asexual

Question 10

What type of cell division is illustrated in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Mitosis

Answer

Meiosis

Question 11

Which organelle is DNA usually found in?

Accepted Answer

nucleus

Answer

cell membrane

Answer

vacuole

Answer

ribosome

Question 12

The cells produced via meiosis are called:

Accepted Answer

sex cells (gametes)

Answer

body cells (somatic cells)

Answer

skin cells

Question 13

A human body cell usually has ___ chromosomes.

Accepted Answer

46

Answer

6

Answer

22

Answer

4

Question 14

What is it called when a sperm and egg join and form a zygote?

Accepted Answer

fertilization

Answer

meiosis

Answer

cell division

Answer

mitosis

Question 15

Meiosis makes sperm and egg cells. In humans, sperm and egg cells each have _____ chromosomes. Therefore a fertilized human egg cell (sperm and egg cell combined aka zygote) would create a cell with _____ chromosomes.

Accepted Answer

23, 46

Answer

46, 23

Answer

2, 4

Answer

50, 100

Question 16

Which of these cells would be produced through meiosis?

Accepted Answer

sperm cells

Answer

skin cells

Answer

liver cells

Answer

brain cells

Question 17

What is one reason we need meiosis?

Accepted Answer

So the offspring has genes from both parents

Answer

So the offspring has genes from one parent

Answer

So the offspring has genes from neither parents

Answer

So the offspring makes its own genes

Question 18

A human zygote (fertilized egg) should have _____ chromosomes inside.

Accepted Answer

46

Answer

23

Answer

92

Answer

64

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