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Introduction to Patterns of Inheritance
Figure 8.1 Experimenting with thousands of garden peas, Mendel uncovered the fundamentals of genetics. (credit: modification of work…
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Chromosome Structural Rearrangements
Cytologists have characterized numerous structural rearrangements in chromosomes, including partial duplications, deletions, inversions, and translocations. Duplications and deletions…
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Errors in Meiosis
Inherited disorders can arise when chromosomes behave abnormally during meiosis. Chromosome disorders can be divided into two categories:…
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Comparing Meiosis and Mitosis
Mitosis and meiosis, which are both forms of division of the nucleus in eukaryotic cells, share some similarities,…
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Meiosis
Sexual reproduction requires fertilization, a union of two cells from two individual organisms. If those two cells each…
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Life Cycles of Sexually Reproducing Organisms
Fertilization and meiosis alternate in sexual life cycles. What happens between these two events depends on the organism.…
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The Red Queen Hypothesis
There is no question that sexual reproduction provides evolutionary advantages to organisms that employ this mechanism to produce…
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Introduction to the Cellular Basis of Inheritance
Figure 7.1 Each of us, like these other large multicellular organisms, begins life as a fertilized egg. After…
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Mitotic Spindle Apparatus
The precise timing and formation of the mitotic spindle is critical to the success of eukaryotic cell division.…
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Prokaryotic Cell Division
Prokaryotes such as bacteria propagate by binary fission. For unicellular organisms, cell division is the only method to…
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