Week 1 Reflection

This week we learned about meiosis.  Meiosis is the production of sex cells.  Meiosis has 8 phases and 2 parts.  We learned about the difference between haploid and diploid cells.  Haploid means half the number of chromosomes and diploid means a full set of chromosomes.  Meiosis produces 4 genetically different haploid daughter cells.  The average human has forty-eight chromosomes, which is a set of twenty-three.  If an organism has more or less than forty-eight chromosomes, it will probably experience mental retardation or another mutation.  This weeks topic was pretty interesting to learn about.