a) Synapsis and Crossing over
Pairing of two homologous chromosomes during the Prophase first of meiosis is known as synapsis. After synapsis, the two homologous chromosomes come closer and get connected by a protein called synaptonemal complex.
Exchange of genetic materials in between two non sister chromatids resulting in a recombinant chromosomes and which occurs during Prophase first of meiosis first is known as crossing over. The site of crossing over is known as chaisma.
b) Gametophyte and gametes
This is the haploid multicellular stage in the life cycle of plants which undergo alternation of generation and produces male or female gametes mitotically. In other words, it is the sexual form of plant in the alternation of generations.
Gamete is the haploid sexual reproductive cell either male or female which are able to fuse with each other to form diploid zygote during fertilization.
c) Male sterility and Self Incompatibility
Disability of plants to produce anthers, pollen or male gametes is termed as male sterility. They usually could produce functional female gametes. This is a heritable trait and is controlled by the genes. This is highly used in hybrid seed production in large scale to avoid artificial emasculation.
When pollen of a genotype fails to fertilize or germinate on the stigma of the genotype having same gene allele, it is termed as self incompatibility. Generally there are two types of self incompatibility – Gametophytic self incompatibility and sporophytic self incompatibility. In gametophytic self incompatibility, the gametophytic haploid genotype determines the self incompatibility phenotype of pollen while in sporophytic self incompatibility, diploid genotype of anther, in which it was created, determines th...
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... through the process of cross breeding. However, many such hybrids show lower level of pairing and recombination between polyploid wheat and its wild related chromosomes because of the lack of homologous chromosomes. The major factor behind this poor pairing is Ph1 gene. Hence there is important role of Ph1 gene in the field of plant breeding. For the last 25 years in plant breeding, wheat having deletions containing Ph1 gene is being used. Without Ph1 locus, pairing can occur between two related chromosomes but due to heavy rearrangement of chromosomes, it becomes difficult for recombination to take place between wheat and its related chromosomes. So, to find out the ability to temporarily switch off the Ph1 gene for the recombination to take place is the main challenge. To achive this goal, fair understanding on the nature and action of Ph1 gene is very important.
Mendel’s law of segregation states that offspring receive only one of two alleles of a gene from the parent (Brooker et al. 2014). This means that utilizing a monohybrid cross where each parent has both a dominant allele of a gene and a recessive allele, that by producing offspring of these plants, a predictable outcome of trait inheritance should be observed (Brooker et al. 2014). This experiment investigated the inheritance of anthocyanin in Brassica rapa.
Meiosis is a kind of cell division that is the key for sexual reproduction to operate contrary to mitosis, a form of asexual reproduction that serves the purpose of growth, repair, and regeneration of cells. Due to the fact that meiosis produces four non-identical haploid daughter cells, it is of vital importance so to allow variation in a population that provides the foundation for evolution, as it permits a species to adapt to changes in their environment. As I briefly mentioned before, meiosis is separated into two stages – meiosis I and II. These stages are further chara...
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Mitosis describes the reproduction of somatic cells, and Meiosis describes the reproduction of sex cells. We have discussed that Interphase, although not actually a part of Mitosis, is the longest phase and that Prophase involves the dissolution of the nuclear envelope, the condensing of chromatin into chromosomes, and the formation of mitotic spindles that attach to the centromeres of the chromosome pairs. After Prophase comes Metaphase where the chromosomes line up in the center of the cell at the metaphase plate. Next, Anaphase occurs where sister chromatids separate to become two separate chromosomes that then move to opposite poles of the cell. This results in the cell’s shape becoming elongated and the chromosome pairs splitting apart. Lastly, Telophase follows Anaphase and nuclei form around the two sets of chromosomes that then become less condensed. In Telophase, the microtubules break down too, and this phase is overlapped at the end of Mitosis with Cytokinesis that involves the final splitting of the two
As part of the cell cycle, mitosis is the nuclear division of replicated chromosomes by the disconnection of the replicated chromosomes to form two genetically identical daughter nuclei. Escorted by mitosis is commonly the process of cytokinesis. The cytokinesis process entails a dividing cell splitting into two, resulting in the subdivision of the cytoplasm into two cellular suites.
Sexual reproduction is that the union of male and feminine gametes to create a fertilised egg or zygote. The ensuing offspring inherit one-half their traits from every parent. Consequently, they 're not genetically similar to either parent or siblings, except within the case of identical twins. As theorised by Mendel, adults are diploid, meaning as 2N, having 2 alleles offered to code for one attribute. The gametes should be haploid, signified by N, containing just one allele in order that once 2 haploid gametes mix, they manufacture a traditional diploid individual. The method where haploid sex cells are created from diploid parents is known as meiosis, and it happens solely within the reproductive organs.
Mitosis has 4 identifiable stages: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase/cytokinesis. Prophase is the first stage of mitotic cellular division in which the centrioles separate and move to opposite ends of the nucleus. Proceeding is prometaphase, whereas described above, is when microtubules attach to the chromosomes to prepare them for the next phase: Metaphase. Metaphase is the third step of mitosis where the chromosomes align along the metaphase plate to prepare for division. To form the two daughter cells, anaphase, the next stage, separates the chromosomes and they move to opposite ends of the cell. Lastly, telophase/cytokinesis occurs in which the nuclear envelope reforms, the cellular membrane (and cell wall in plant cells) is cleaved and rebuilt. From that process two identical daughter cells are
Meiosis, or reductional division, is the process during which exchange of genetic material between the homolog chromosomes (crossing-over and recombination) takes place and such a division of the genetical material occurs the four daughercells.
Meiosis, what a discovery! Meiosis was originally discovered in sea urchin eggs in 1876 by German biologist Oscar Hertwig. This year, 1883, it was well understood at the level of chromosomes by the Belgian zoologist Edouard Van Beneden, in Ascaris roundworm eggs. Most of you probably don't know what it is. Meiosis is a type of cell division that creates four haploid cells, each containing genetic material from the parent cell. This process occurs in sexually reproducing eukaryotes. This parent cells or gamete is a sperm cell or an egg cell depending on gender. In this process you have a parent cell that has forty-six chromosomes, centromeres, and chromatids that end up with four haploid cells that contain twenty-three chromosomes, centromeres,
The process, during which the germ cells are generated is called meiosis. It represents nature's solution to the problem of chromosome doubling that would occur, if two diploid cells, i.e. two cells with a double set of chromosomes would fuse. Accordingly does meiosis produce haploid germ cells, with maternal and paternal germ cell fusing at fertilization and thus generating a diploid fusion product, the zygote. Meiosis is made up by two subsequent processes, both of which resemble mitosis. In the first process are the homologous chromosomes separated. It has an unusually long prophase that is subdivided into different stages They are followed by metaphase, anaphase and telophase.
Meiosis is the process sex cells undergo for division. Unlike mitosis where cells reproduce from a diploid number of chromosomes to a diploid number of chromosomes, meiosis produces diploid cells from haploid cells. Diploid and haploid are names for the number of chromosomes a cell has, soma cells or body cells that reproduce through mitosis are diploid, meaning they have 46 chromosomes (in humans), haploid cell have half as many chromosomes as diploid cells; 23 in humans. Sex cells or gametes are haploid, to undergo sexual reproduction.
Spores all the time haploid and unicellular and are generated by meiosis in the sporangium of a diploid sporophyte. Under convenient conditions the spore can use mitotic division to promote into a new organism, which produce a multicellular gametophyte, which eventually goes on to produce gametes. Zygote been formed from Two gametes, which develops into a new sporophyte. This cycle is known as alternation of generations.
Each of the cells have precisely half the number of chromosomes from the original cell. There are many different processes go in this phase so the cell has time to prepare for the second part of meiosis. The only persistent thing is that genetic material does not copy, but in its place it continues to get divided. The next stage is prophase 2 during this phase the chromosomes start traveling to the metaphase plate again, which is at the midpoint of the cell. The next stage is metaphase 2 the chromosomes line up along the center of the cell before it breaks up into two. Then the chromatids point towards the opposite ends of the cell. The next stage is anaphase 2. This is the second to last phase in meiosis and it has many events that happen. The first event is when the sister chromatids separate and move towards the opposite ends of the pole. When this is happening the spindle fibers will lengthen and make the cell bigger. Then the paired chromatids will begin to detach from each other. Now every chromatid pair is considered to be a full chromosome. Now anaphase 2 will start getting ready for the final phase of meiosis. Both cell poles start to move even more apart and now it can be seen as splitting. By the end of this phase each pole
The word "hybrid" is usually used in conjunction with genetic analysis of plants. A hybrid in its biological context is sometimes a sterile offshoot.
Meiosis is a specialized form of nuclear division in which there two successive nuclear divisions (meiosis I and II) without any chromosome replication between them. Each division can be divided into 4 phases similar to those of mitosis (pro-, meta-, ana- and telophase). Meiosis occurs during the formation of gametes in animals.