Haploid vs Diploid

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• Why are sperm and egg haploid cells?
• How many chromosomes do diploid cells have?
• How does a diploid organism differ from a haploid organism?
• How can a haploid organisms produce gametes?
• How can a haploid cell undergo mitosis?
• What is a diploid organism?
• What are haploid cells?
• Are all unicellular organisms haploid? If not, how do we know a cell is haploid or diploid?
• How would you compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis?
• In meiosis, how does prophase I differ from prophase II?
• What cells undergo meiosis?
• Whats the difference between genotype and gamete?
• What is an important evolutionary feature of the diploid condition?
• What are cells called that have the full set of chromosomes? Are they haploid, diploid, somatic, or semi-somatic?
• How do spermatogenesis and oogenesis differ in terms of the number of gametes they produce?
• If there are 32 sister chromatids in a normal somatic cell, what is the haploid number for that cell?
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