Question: Consider a diploid organism with a diploid number of 30.  Show your work and/or explain logic on all parts. a.  How many total chromatids will be present in a typical cell at mitotic metaphase? b.  How many tetrads

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Consider a diploid organism with a diploid number of 30.  Show your work and/or explain logic on all parts.

a.  How many total chromatids will be present in a typical cell at mitotic metaphase?

b.  How many tetrads are present in a metaphase I cell of meiosis?

c.  How many dyads are present in a metaphase II cell in meiosis?

d.  How many monads are expected in each product cell at the end of meiosis II?

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Mitosis and meiosis are types of cell division . Mitosis is a normal cell division which is required for cell growth Where as meiosis occurs only in Gamut and is a reduction division . It consists of two subdivisions the first one is meiosis 1 which is the reduction division where the chromosome number is reduced to half and the second one meiosis 2 is the equational division where the numbers is equalisedm

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