STATION A: MITOSIS!
WRITE YOUR ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ON Your Paper!
1. How many daughter cells are produced by mitosis?
Assume an organism’s body cells have 20 chromosomes for questions 2-5.
2. How many chromosomes are in the parent cell before mitosis?
3. How many chromosomes are in the daughter cells after undergoing mitosis?
4. Are the parent and daughter cells identical or different? Why does this make
sense?
5. Why does an organism need to do mitosis? (List two reasons)
6. What type of cells is made in mitosis? (Somatic cells or gametes)
7. Bacteria use perform binary fission to reproduce, a process that is very similar to
mitosis. Is binary fission a type of asexual or sexual reproduction?
8. If a lion’s sperm has 16 chromosomes, how many would you expect would be in
a lion’s skin cell?
STATION B: MEIOSIS!
WRITE YOUR ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ON YOUR SHEET!!!
1. How many daughter cells are produced by meiosis?
2. How is meiosis different from mitosis? (list at least two ways)
Assume an organism’s body cells have 20 chromosomes for questions 3-6.
3. How many chromosomes are in the parent cell before meiosis?
4. How many chromosomes are in the daughter cells after undergoing meiosis?
5. Are the parent and daughter cells identical or different? How do you know?
6. Are all of the daughter cells identical to each other or are they each unique?
7. If a zebra’s body cells have 14 chromosomes and go through meiosis to form sperm,
how many chromosomes would you expect the sperm cells to have?
8. What kind of cells are created by meiosis?
9. Is meiosis required for sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction, or both?
STATION C: PHENOTYPE / GENOTYPE / PUNNETT
SQUARES!
WRITE YOUR ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ON YOUR SHEET!!!
1. In frogs, green skin color (G) is dominant to
purple skin color (g). What is the GENOTYPE
of a frog with purple skin?
2. What is the PHENOTYPE of a frog with the
genotype Gg?
3. A yellow pea pod plant is crossed with a
heterozygous green pea pod plant. Green
pea pods are the dominant trait. What is the
probability that this couple’s offspring will
have GREEN pea pods?
4. A homozygous green pea plant is crossed with a yellow pea plant. What are the
chances that this couple’s offspring will have YELLOW pea pods? Write a fraction, a
percentage, and a ratio!
5. A family has 3 children, all with blue eyes. Blue eyes are a recessive trait. The parents
both have brown eyes. What are the genotypes of the parents?