The process an organism's body mitotically dividing into two equal parts to form a new organism is called:
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D. Binary Fission\n\nDont you just love biology? :) Hah.
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In biology, meiosis is the process that allows one diploid cell to divide in a special way to generate haploid cells in eukaryotes. The word "meiosis" comes from the Greek meioun, meaning "to make smaller," since it results in a reduction in chromosome number.\n\nMeiosis is essential for sexual reproduction. It therefore occurs in most eukaryotes, including single-celled organisms. A few eukaryotes, notably the Bdelloid rotifers, have lost the ability to carry out meiosis and acquired the ability to reproduce by parthenogenesis. Meiosis does not occur in archaea or prokaryotes, which reproduce by asexual cell division processes.\n\nDuring meiosis, the genome of a diploid germ cell, which is composed of long segments of DNA called chromosomes, undergoes DNA replication followed by two rounds of division, resulting in haploid cells called gametes. Each gamete contains one complete set of chromosomes, or half of the genetic content of the original cell. These resultant haploid cells can fuse with other haploid cells of the opposite gender or mating type during fertilization to create a new diploid cell, or zygote. Thus, the division mechanism of meiosis is a reciprocal process to the joining of two genomes that occurs at fertilization. Because the chromosomes of each parent undergo genetic recombination during meiosis, each gamete, and thus each zygote, will have a unique genetic blueprint encoded in its DNA. In other words, meiosis is the process that produces genetic variation.\n\nBiochemically, meiosis uses some of the same mechanisms employed during mitosis to accomplish the redistribution of chromosomes. There are several features unique to meiosis, most importantly the pairing and recombination between homologous chromosomes, which enable them to separate from each other.click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis#History\n\nMitosis is the process by which a cell separates its duplicated genome into two identical halves. It is generally followed immediately by cytokinesis which divides the cytoplasm and cell membrane. This results in two identical daughter cells with a roughly equal distribution of organelles and other cellular components. Mitosis and cytokinesis together is defined as the mitotic (M) phase of the cell cycle, the division of the mother cell into two daughter cells, each the genetic equivalent of the parent cell.\n\nMitosis occurs exclusively in eukaryotic cells. In multicellular organisms, the somatic cells undergo mitosis, while germ cells — cells destined to become sperm in males or ova in females — divide by a related process called meiosis. Prokaryotic cells, which lack a nucleus, divide by a process called binary fission.\n\nBecause cytokinesis usually occurs in conjunction with mitosis, "mitosis" is often used interchangeably with "mitotic phase". However, there are many cells where mitosis and cytokinesis occur separately, forming single cells with multiple nuclei. This occurs most notably among the fungi and slime moulds, but is found in various different groups. Even in animals, cytokinesis and mitosis may occur independently, for instance during certain stages of fruit fly embryonic development.\n\nTranscription is generally believed to cease during mitosis, but epigenetic mechanisms such as bookmarking function during this stage of the cell cycle to ensure that the "memory" of which genes were active prior to entry into mitosis are transmitted to the daughter cells.click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitosis#Overview
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They build new copies of the genes (DNA) identical to the original so then the cell can split into two identical cells
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In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is a living complex adaptive system of organs that influence each other in such a way that they function as a more or less stable whole.
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A zygote is what the egg is called while it is dividing. Once it reaches a certain stage, where it starts looking like a baby is usually when it is called an embryo. You can find the exact stage online probably.
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This is when a cell reproduces by either mitosis (in most cases) or meiosis (in the case of sex cells)\n\nSee http://www.scienceaid.co.uk/celldivision.html for more information
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Mitosis is the cell division that takes place in most type of cells. In this division the entire DNA of the cell is replicated. The original cell divides into two daughter cells. Mitosis gives rise to almost all the cells in the body. \nA different type of cell division called meiosis gives rise to sperm and eggs. Here the daughter cells have only half the number of homologous chromosomes. This is because on fertilization the sperm and oveum will combine to form the zygote which will develop into the baby. Meiosis reduces the number of chromosomes by half, so in humans each sperm and each egg has only 23 chromosomes, including one chromosome from each pair of homologous chromosomes.
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mitosis is the process of nuclear division in which the chromosomes replicate and become equally distributed into two daughter so that they hane the same number and type of chromosomes as present in the parent. it was first observed by Strasburger(1870) in plants and by Boveri & Fleming(1879) in animal cells... its also known as somatic division as it involves only the somatic body cells, also since its keeps the chromosome numeber the same its also known as equitorial division..\n\n\nmeiosis occurs in diploid cells and gives rise to four haploid nuclei, each havin n/2 number of chromosomes, here n is the number of chromosomes.. in this the nuclei divides twice but the chromosomes are replicated only once....\n\nits divided into 2 stages\n1. Meiosis 1\n2. Meiosis 2\n\neach have a number of sub stages..\n\nthere are 1000's of major differences, i'll sorting them, its upto u to remember the one... and as far as the pneumatic device is considered, it's common 2 all of us..\n\n\n1. Mitosis takes place in somatic cells, whereas Meiosis in reproductive cells.\n\n2. mitosis occurs in both haploid & Diplois, meiosis in diploid only.\n\n3. 2 & 4 daughter cells produced resp..\n\n4. CHROMOSOMES REPLICATE IN THE INTERPHASE BEFORE EVERY DIVISON IN MITOSIS BUT IN MEIOSIS THEY REPLICATE ONLY ONCE PRIOR TO MEIOSIS.
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Meiosis is a completely different process from mitosis.\n\nI should stop doing other people's homework...\n\nMeiosis ends with a different amount of cells, and the cells as a result of meiosis only have 1/2 of the chromosomes of the original cell, where in mitosis, the daughter cells have the same amount of chromosomes.\n\nIn meiosis, there are two divisions. \n\nMeiosis occurs only in reproductive cells. For example, in humans, sperm has 23chromosomes and eggs have 23 chromosomes, a normal human cell has 46, which is why it takes two reproductive cells to create a living thing.\n\nI could go on and on, but I have to return to my own work.
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>meiosis (mīŏ'sĭs) , process of nuclear division in a living cell by which the number of chromosomes is reduced to half the original number. Meiosis occurs only in the process of gametogenesis, i.e., when the gametes, or sex cells (ovum and sperm), are being formed. Because fertilization consists of the fusion of two separate nuclei, one from each of the sex cells, meiosis is necessary to prevent the doubling of the chromosome number in each successive generation. An ordinary body cell is diploid; i.e., it contains two of each type of chromosome. The members of each pair are known as homologous chromosomes. An ovum or sperm is haploid; i.e., it contains only a single chromosome of each type and, therefore, half the number of chromosomes of the diploid cell. When the two haploid cells fuse, the diploid number is restored, and the plant or animal growing from the fertilized egg (zygote) has the usual diploid number of chromosomes in its cells. Just before meiosis each chromosome replicates to form two identical copies in the form of strands called chromatids joined together at a point called the centromere. In the first stage of meiosis, called the reduction division, the members of each pair of homologous chromosomes lie side by side and crossing over occurs. Each member of the pair then moves away from the other toward opposite ends of the dividing cell, and two nuclei, each with the haploid number of double-stringed chromosomes, are formed. Thus at the beginning of the second meiotic sequence, called the equational division, each cell nucleus contains one chromosome from each homologous pair and each chromosome is of two strands that are identical (except where crossing over has occurred). Then the chromosomes separate into their single strands which move toward opposite ends of the dividing nucleus. The result of meiotic division is four cells, each haploid, with one chromosome of each pair.\n\n>meiosis (meye-oh-sis) \nDivision of cells in which four “daughter” cells are produced from one “parent” cell, each with half the genes of the parent. Meiosis is a key process in sexual reproduction. In the ovaries and testes, meiosis produces a great variety of sex cells (sperm and ova), because the genes of the parent cell can be split in many different ways. The sex cells combine in fertilization to produce a new individual with the full number of genes — half from each parent. Because the sex cells come in such variety, and come from two parents, there is an enormous number of possible forms for the offspring. (See chromosomes, genetics, and mitosis.) \n\n>mei·o·sis (mī-ō'sĭs)\nn., pl. -ses (-sēz').\nThe special process of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that results in the formation of gametes, consisting of two nuclear divisions in rapid succession that in turn result in the formation of four gametocytes, each containing half the number of chromosomes that is found in somatic cells.\n\n>meiosis: \nIn biology, meiosis is the process that transforms one diploid cell into four haploid cells in eukaryotes in order to redistribute the diploid's cell's genome.\n\nMeiosis forms the basis of sexual reproduction and can only occur in eukaryotes. In meiosis, the diploid cell's genome, which is composed of ordered structures of coiled DNA called chromosomes, is replicated once and separated twice, producing four sets of haploid cells each containing half of the original cell's chromosomes. These resultant haploid cells will fertilize with other haploid cells of the opposite gender to form a diploid cell again. The cyclical process of separation by meiosis and genetic recombination through fertilization is called the life cycle. The result is that the offspring produced during germination after meiosis will have a slightly different blueprint which has instructions for the cells to work, contained in the DNA. This allows sexual reproduction to occur.\n\nBiochemically
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During *mitosis*, the cytoplasm of a cell and its organelles separate into two new *identical cells*?\n\nI'm not sure what else you're looking for here...
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:\nMitosis divides genetic information during cell division. A cell in early anaphaseMitosis is the process by which a cell separates its duplicated genome into two identical halves. It is generally followed immediately by cytokinesis which divides the cytoplasm and cell membrane. This results in two identical daughter cells with a roughly equal distribution of organelles and other cellular components. Mitosis and cytokinesis together is defined as the mitotic (M) phase of the cell cycle, the division of the mother cell into two daughter cells, each the genetic equivalent of the parent cell.
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Cytokinesis is part of mitosis where the cell membrane divides
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It divides by mitosis then it begin to grow.According to which type of cell your referring to.That's what I think.
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Its called a "Chimera"\n\nIn response to the response below about tetraploidy.  Tetraploidy is highly lethal.  The person asking the question is referring to a tv show where there are people who have "two sets of chromosomes."  Not two identical sets in the same cell that didn't undergo mitosis correctly (and maybe meiosis).  The question is asking about people who have their "twin inside of them."  A condition where a fraternal twin egg is ingulfed by the other egg resulting in a chimera.  Check the references:
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Mitosis is the process of cell division.  Our cells are constantly dying off.  Mitosis allows living organisms to continue to survive by replacing the dying cells.
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These steps will separate most modern animal phyla.\n\nDeveloping:\nFrom a single cell to a multi-cellular body\nFrom radial to bilateral body symmetry\nFrom spiral to radial plane of cleavage in egg division\nFrom a blastopore that forms a mouth to a blastopore that forms the anus\nFrom an incomplete digestive track to complete\nFrom no coelom, to a pseudocoel, to a true coelom\nFrom a true coelom with 2 layers to one with 3 layers\nFrom a ventral nervous system to one that is dorsal\nComplicated organ systems: excretory, circulatory, respiratory\nFrom a non-segmented body to segmentation