Describe your own life history in terms of a general sexual life cycle. Indicate where and when in your body meiosis occurs. Use common objects such as paper clips or scraps of paper to model the changes in number and movement of chromosomes during meiosis. Compare the timing, location, numbers of cells, numbers of chromosomes, and genetic outcomes of mitosis and meiosis. Sex, reproduction, and the usefulness of genetic variability Reproduction and sex are not necessarily linked.
Asexual reproduction tends to produce genetically identical individuals.
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