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Question
Explain the Term Pachytene
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Solution
Pachytene: The crossing-over begins at the end of this stage.
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The diagram given below represents a stage during cell division.
Study the same and answer the questions that follow:
- Identify whether it is a plant cell or an animal cell. Give a reason in support of your answer.
- Name the stage depicted in the diagram. What is the unique feature observed in this stage?
- Name the type of cell division that occurs during:
- Replacement of old leaves by new ones
- Formation of gametes
- What is the stage that comes before the stage shown in the diagram?
- Draw a neat, labelled diagram of the stage mentioned in (iv) above keeping the chromosome number constant.
The diagram below represents a stage during cell division. Study the same and then answer the questions that follow:
- Name the parts labelled 1, 2, and 3.
- Identify the above stage and give a reason to support your answer.
- Mention where in the body this type of cell division occurs.
- Name the stage prior to this stage and draw a diagram to represent the same.
Given below is a diagram representing a stage during mitotic cell division in an animal cell Examine it carefully and answer the questions which follow.
- Identify the stage. Give one reason in support of your answer.
- Name the cell organelle that forms the ‘aster’.
- Name the parts labelled 1, 2 and 3.
- Name the stage that follows the one shown above; how is that stage identified?
- Mention two differences between mitosis and meiosis with regards to:
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For formation of plasma membrane, ______ molecules are necessary.
Fill in the blank:
______ is the indirect cell division.
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(i) Is it an animal cell or a plant cell ? Give one reason in support of your answer.
(ii) Label the parts numbered 1 – 3.
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The figure below shows a certain stage of mitosis:
(i) Name the stage,
(ii) Label the parts 1 to 4
(iii) How many chromosomes are shown here?
Draw a well-labelled diagram to show the anaphase stage of mitosis in plant cells having four chromosomes.
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Choose the Odd One Out
Column ‘II’ is a list of items related to ideas in Column ‘I’. Match the terms in Column ‘II’ with a suitable idea given in Column ‘I’.
| Column I | Column II |
| (i) Anaphase | (a) Chromosomes become arranged in a horizontal plane at the equator. |
| (ii) Prophase | (b) Daughter chromosomes move to opposite poles of the spindle. |
| (iii) Telophase | (c) Chromosomes become visible as fine, long threads. |
| (iv) Metaphase | (d) Chromosomes lose their distinctiveness and gradually become transformed into chromatin network. |
In which stage of mitosis the chromosomes align in an equatorial plate? How?
Give the sequence of the events occurring during the prophase of mitosis.
Identify the stage of mitosis from the below picture. List the chromosomal events in this stage.
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