Chapter 9 - Introduction

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To fully appreciate this tutorial, you should be familiar with the concepts of:
• The eukaryotic cell cycle
• Somatic cells and gametes

After this tutorial, you will be able to describe the differences between:
• Mitosis and meiosis
• Haploid and diploid cells

How do organisms produce both haploid and diploid cells?

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Mitosis and meiosis lead to different outcomes
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Summary

When a cell divides, the information contained in the DNA first must be accurately copied; then the copies must be passed to each daughter cell through a precisely choreographed series of steps. Daughter cells produced by mitosis are faithful duplicates of their parents, containing exactly the same number of chromosomes. In contrast, daughter cells produced by meiosis have a reduced number of chromosomes.