Understanding the steps of meiosis is essential to learning how errors occur. Researchers' initial understanding of meiosis was based upon careful observations of chromosome behavior using light ...

Like mitosis, meiosis also has distinct stages called prophase ... cell has half the normal number of chromosomes (Figure 7). Each also contains new mixtures of genes within its chromosomes ...

This solution is called meiosis. Mitosis describes the process by which the nucleus of a cell divides to create two new nuclei, each containing an identical copy of DNA. (Cytokinesis describes the ...