Biology 11.23 - 11.29

Over the next couple of days we will be looking at the process that allows our body to produce sex cells or gametes. Pay close attention to crossing over.



Here is a step-by-step breakdown of meiosis. The cell shown has a diploid number of four so each of the four daughter cells will have two chromosomes.

Here is another good animation that shows the basic steps of meiosis. Play it step-by-step to see crossing over.

Here is the same website's animation of mitosis. Notice the differences between the two.