How do meiosis and mitosis interact in the sexual life cycle of humans?
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Mitosis is a continuous process by which the body grows and dead body cells are replaced, in this type of cell division each "daughter cell " contains  the exact number of chromosomes as the "parent cell" 46 also called the diploid number. The process of mitosis  in sperm is called spermatogenesis  and in the ovum , called oogenesis.\nMeiosis is a different type of cell division where reproductive cells undergo 2 sequential divisions. During meiosis the number of chromosomes is reduced to half, 23 chromosomes also called the haploid number. At the moment of fertilization (when the sperm and ovum unite) the new cell contains 23 chromosomes from the sperm and 23 chromosomes from the ova returning to the diploid number of 46 and both the mothers and fathers traits are inherited by the gamete
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Meiosis occurs after sexual maturity in both male and females.\nIn males in happens almost all the time after maturity, as males need to produce millions of sperm.\nIn females it happens approximately once a month and happens much more slowly, producing one gamete (egg or oocyte) for use.
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Both previous answers are inaccurate.\n\nMitosis is sometimes called growth division. In plants and animals new cells are made continually. Mitosis results in two new cells identical genetically to the original which divided.\nWe are diploid animals which have 23 pairs of chromosomes. After mitosis both cells still have 23 pairs of chromosomes.\n\nMeiosis is a division which produces sex cells (sperm or ova). After division is complete, each sex cell has half the number of chromosomes; it is haploid. So instead of having 23 pairs the sex cells will have 23 chromosomes - one of each type of chromosome.
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Mitosis occurs pretty much everywhere, the two major exceptions being red blood cells and nervous tissue. Aside from that name any living tissue in your body and there is mitosis occuring.
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============================================================\nMitosis is a special kind of cell division used by eukaryote cells. You will probably find a series of diagrams in your biology text book to show the stages of mitosis; these are:\n\nprophase \nmetaphase \nanaphase \ntelophase \n============================================================\n============================================================\n2. cell division \n\neukaryotic cell \n\na. By mitosis (def).\nb. Sex cells in diploid (def) organisms are produced through meiosis (def). \n\nprokaryotic cell \n\na. Usually by binary fission (def). No mitosis.\nb. Organisms are haploid (def). No meiosis needed. \n============================================================\n\nMore at the links:
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The replication of chromosomes does not occur during mitosis. This replication occurs during the S phase of the interphase. Think of the word SYNTHESIS when you think of the S phase. The new strands of DNA in the chromosome are SYNTHESIZED in the S phase.
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1- Meiosis happens in stem cells that give rise to gametes (sex cells). \nMitosis happens in all other cells.\nIn women every month only one stem cell goes through meiosis forming 4 haploid cells. In men many cells go through meiosis everyday.\nEvery other cell in body goes through mitosis in a daily basis to replace old and dead cell.\n2- Before cell replication starts.\n3- At the end of the prophase (in case of meiosis, end of the prophase 1)\n4- Mitosis: diploid cells; Meiosis: haploid cells\n5- Every thing but cell division: the cell obtain nutrients and when it gets close to cell division, it will duplicate its DNA and other organelles.
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Mitosis and Meiosis. Passing on genes of gamets and somatic cells. Evolution is a characteristic.
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mitosis:the process in cell division by which the nucleus divides, typically consisting of four stages: prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase.\n\nmeiosis: (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants) \n\nosmosis:Transmission of fluids from one cell into another; foundation of metabolism, led by the concentration of salt within a cell. Water can penetrate cell membranes, and strives to, where the concentration of salt is highest, in order to equalize the salt concentration in the body.
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meiosis ensures that each gamete is a haploid (i.e. has half, or n, chromosomes of a normal cell). when the gametes fuse the zygote becomes 2n like a normal cell. Mitosis produces daughter cells which both have 2n, and these cannot be present in the gametes or else the zygote would have 4n!
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I'm sorry I don't see a picture of anything. Would you care to edit your question?\n\nMitosis- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitosis\nMeiosis- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis\n\nHope they help.
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Phases of mitosis\n \nThe cell cycle.The mitotic phase is a relatively short action-packed period of the cell cycle. It alternates with the much longer interphase, where the cell prepares itself for division. Interphase is divided into three phases, G1 (first gap), S (synthesis), and G2 (second gap). During all three phases, the cell grows by producing proteins and cytoplasmic organelles. However, chromosomes are replicated only during the S phase. Thus, a cell grows (G1), continues to grow as it duplicates its chromosomes (S), grows more and prepares for mitosis (G2), and divides (M).\n\nMitosis is a continual and dynamic process. For purposes of description, however, mitosis is conventionally broken down into five subphases: prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.\n\n[edit]\nProphase\n \nProphase: The two round objects above the nucleus are the centrosomes. Note the condensed chromatin.Main article: Prophase \nNormally, the genetic material in the nucleus is in a loosely bundled coil called chromatin. At the onset of prophase, chromatin condenses together into a highly ordered structure called a chromosome. Since the genetic material has already been duplicated earlier in S phase, the chromosomes have two sister chromatids, bound together at the centromere by the protein cohesin. Chromosomes are visible at high magnification through a light microscope.\n\nJust outside the nucleus are two centrosomes. Each centrosome, which was replicated earlier independent of mitosis, acts as a coordinating center for the cell's microtubules. The two centrosomes sprout microtubules (which may be thought of as cellular ropes or poles) by polymerizing free-floating tubulin protein. By repulsive interaction of these microtubules with each other, the centrosomes push themselves to opposite ends of the cell (although new research has shown that there might be a mechanism inside the centromeres that also grab the microtubules and pull the chromatids apart). The network of microtubules is the beginning of the mitotic spindle.\n\nSome centrosomes contain a pair of centrioles that may help organize microtubule assembly, but they are not essential to formation of the mitotic spindle. Plant cells that lack centrioles have no trouble undergoing mitosis.\n\n[edit]\nPrometaphase\n \nPrometaphase: The nuclear membrane has degraded, and microtubules have invaded the nuclear space. These microtubules can attach to kinetochores or they can interact with opposing microtubules.Main article: Prometaphase \nThe nuclear envelope dissolves and microtubules invade the nuclear space. This is called open mitosis, and it occurs in most multicellular organisms. Some protists, such as algae, undergo a variation called closed mitosis where the microtubules are able to penetrate an intact nuclear envelope.\n\nEach chromosome forms two kinetochores at the centromere, one attached at each chromatid. A kinetochore is a complex protein structure that is analogous to a ring for the microtubule hook; it is the point where microtubules attach themselves to the chromosome. Although the kinetochore is not fully understood, it is known that it contains a molecular motor. When a microtubule connects with the kinetochore, the motor activates, using energy from ATP to "crawl" up the tube toward the originating centrosome. The kinetochore provides the pulling force necessary to later separate the chromosome's two chromatids.\n\nWhen the spindle grows to sufficient length, kinetochore microtubules begin searching for kinetochores to attach to. A number of nonkinetochore microtubules find and interact with corresponding nonkinetochore microtubules from the opposite centrosome to form the mitotic spindle.CXV\n\nPrometaphase is sometimes considered part of prophase.\n\n[edit]\nMetaphase\n \nMetaphase: The chromosomes have aligned at the metaphase plate.Main article: Metaphase \nAs microtubules find and attach to kinetochores in prometaphase, the centro
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Women are, men are not.\n\nIn men, the cells that go through meiosis eventually go through special phases to duplicate over and over and over and over and over.  4 gametes (sperm) are created each time for each male cell undergoing meiosis.\n\nFor gametes in women, the process of meiosis leaves one feasable gamete and 3 polar bodies that are discarded.  There cannot be 2 gametes because the cytoplasm must be given to the feasable gamete, along with all the other "good stuff", as the female gamete (egg) must be capable of starting life.\nWomen are born with about 10,000 cells that are capable of going through meiosis, and that is all there will ever be within a woman's body for their whole lifespan.\n\nIf the either sex was born with the gametes "ready to go" most of them would age and die before they were ever used- resulting in the end of the species, as, for humans, sexual reproduction is begun relatively "late" in life.  So, any "ready to go" cells would die before they were used, being useless to the continuation of the species.\n\nCells usually die every 4 months approximately.  Really really.  Except for nerve cells.  But if those die, they're gone.
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remember the phases in meiosis (in order) :Prophase, Metaphase, anaphase, telephase (pmat)\nMitosis\nI  INTRODUCTION \n\nMitosis, process in which a cell’s nucleus replicates and divides in preparation for division of the cell. Mitosis results in two cells that are genetically identical, a necessary condition for the normal functioning of virtually all cells. Mitosis is vital for growth; for repair and replacement of damaged or worn out cells; and for asexual reproduction, or reproduction without eggs and sperm.\n\nAll multicellular animals, plants, fungi, and protists, which begin life as single cells, carry out mitosis to develop into complex organisms containing billions of cells. Mitosis continues in full-grown organisms as a means of maintaining the organism—replacing dying skin cells, for example, or repairing damaged muscle cells. In the cells of the adult human body, mitosis occurs about 25 million times per second. Multicellular organisms such as sea stars, sea anemones, fungi, and certain plants rely on mitosis for asexual reproduction at particular stages in their life cycles, and mitosis is the sole mode of reproduction for many single-celled organisms.\n\nII  INTERPHASE \n\nThe life cycle of eukaryotic cells, or cells containing a nucleus, is a continuous process typically divided into three phases for ease of understanding: interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis. Interphase includes three stages, referred to as G1, S and G2. In G1, a newly formed cell synthesizes materials needed for cell growth. In the S stage, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the genetic material of the cell, is replicated. At this stage, DNA consists of long, thin strands called chromatin. As each strand is replicated, it is linked to its duplicate by a structure known as a centromere. When the S stage is complete, the cell enters a brief stage known as G2, when specialized enzymes correct any errors in the newly synthesized DNA, and proteins involved with the next phase, mitosis, are synthesized. \n\nIII  MITOSIS \n\nMitosis occurs in four steps. In prophase the replicated, linked DNA strands slowly wrap around proteins that in turn coil and condense into two short, thick, rodlike structures called chromatids, attached by the centromere. Two structures called centrioles, both located on one side of the nucleus, separate and move toward opposite poles of the cell. As the centrioles move apart, they begin to radiate thin, hollow, proteins called microtubules. The microtubules arrange themselves in the shape of a football, or spindle, that spans the cell, with the widest part at the center of the cell and the narrower ends at opposite poles. As the spindle forms, the nuclear membrane breaks down into tiny sacs or vesicles that are dispersed in the cytoplasm. Final disintegration of the membrane marks the beginning of metaphase. \n\nIn metaphase, the spindle fibers attach to the chromatids near the centromeres, and tug and push the chromatids so that they line up in the equatorial plane of the cell halfway between the poles. Like two individuals standing back to back at the equator, one chromatid faces one pole of the cell, and its linked partner faces the opposite pole. This precise orientation is necessary in order for the next step, anaphase, to occur. Anaphase begins when the centromeres split, separating the identical chromatids into single chromosomes, which then move along the spindle fibers to opposite poles of the cell. \n\nAs these two identical groups of single chromosomes gather at opposite poles of the cell, telophase begins. A new nuclear membrane forms around each new group of chromosomes. The spindle fibers break down and the newly formed chromosomes begin to unwind. If viewed under a light microscope, the chromosomes appear to fade away. They exist, however, in the form of chromatin, the extended, thin strands of DNA too fine to be seen except with electron microscopes. Mitosis accomplishes replication and division of the nucleus,
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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 is the type of cell division by which germ cells (eggs and sperm) are produced. Meiosis involves a reduction in the amount of genetic material
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Mitosis is the formation of identical daughter cells, it has nothing to do with the interacting of "two" cells.  Plant cells have a different pinching off process when the one cell becomes two because of the cell walls.  Also animal cells have a structure called centrioles that does something in mitosis but I do NOT remember what it does...