Meiosis

Cards (8)

  • Gametes are sex cells
  • Each gamete has only half of chromosomes (haploid)
  • A zygote is a fertilised egg
  • Zygote goes through cell division and develops into embryo
  • embryo with inherit characteristics from both parents (mixture of chromosomes and genes)
  • Meisos happens in reproductive organs
  • meisos produces variation in organisms by not making identical cells like mitosis
  • Zygote turns into diploid before cell devisoon