Cellular Reproduction Notes for middle school ; Meiosis and Mitosis ; Middle school life science
Cellular Reproduction Notes for middle school ; Meiosis and Mitosis ; Middle school life science
Section A: ALL LIVING THINGS
- Reproduce 
- Grow/ develop 
- Use energy (breathing, eating, exertion) 
- Respond to their environment (stimuli) 
- Have cells 
- Have metabolism/ homeostasis (maintain balance) 
- Contain DNA 
- Evolve (as a species - Section B- Vocabulary - Parent- the organism that reproduces 
- Parent cell- Cell that is reproducing. Doesn’t die, divides. 
- Daughter cells- the cell that is created 
- Chromosome- A clump of DNA (and some protein). Also has hereditary information. 1 chromatids per chromosome, unless about to do mitosis/ meiosis. Then there is 2 per chromosome 
- Gene- A part of the DNA that holds hereditary information. Passed from parents to the child. Contains instructions for producing specific proteins 
- Heredity- passing of physical/ mental characteristics through generations. 
- DNA- Instructions for organisms. Like an instruction manual. In the nucleus. Contains genetic information. 
- RNA- A chain of cells. Nucleic Acid. Processes proteins. Instructions to create proteins. Carries information to make proteins (mRNA) 
- Mutation- When a gene changes, altering the DNA. Any permanent change in a gene/ chromosome. Can be good or bad 
- Miscarriage- when a cell with 46 chromosomes and 46 chromosomes (or just 1 46 and 1 23) do fertilization. Ends up with an organism with 92 (or less) chromosomes. It tries to be a human, but can't because it doesn’t have the right number of chromosomes. Usually dies. 
- Zygote- cell created after fertilization. Will duplicate using mitosis, making an organism 
- Fertilization- When a sperm and egg cell create a zygote 
- Gamete- a Haploid cell produced by a male/ female used for reproduction. Don’t have pairs of chromosomes 
- Haploid- a cell with half the amount of chromosomes it usually has (for humans, it has 23 chromosomes). Hap for half. Used for reproduction. Don’t have pairs of chromosomes 
- Examples 
- Gametes 
- Sperm 
- Sperm- male gamete. Has 23 chromosomes 
- Egg 
- Egg- female gamete. 23 chromosomes 
- Diploid- a cell with the normal amount of chromosomes. (for humans, it has 46) Di for double of a haploid. All exactly the same (skin cells are the same as other skin cells, but obviously, skin cells are not same as bone cells) Have pairs of chromosomes 
- Examples of diploids 
- Body cells 
- Skin cells 
- Bone cells 
- Muscle cells 
- Stomach cells 
- Blood cells 
- Nerve cells 
 - C- Reproduction - Asexual Reproduction 
- Produce offspring that are identical to the parent 
- Only 1 parent 
- Simplest form of life (simple organisms) 
- Examples 
- Sea Star 
- Hydra 
- Salamander 
- Sea Sponge 
- Bacteria 
- Single celled organisms 
- Cells 
- Advantages 
- Reproduce quickly 
- Increase the population quickly 
- Disadvantages 
- Harder to adapt because everyone is exactly the same 
- Budding 
- A new organism grows from a parent 
- For example, a flower bud 
- Steps 
- A tiny ‘bump’ appears 
- Bud develops 
- Bud grows 
- Bud breaks off 
- Examples 
- Plants 
- Hydra 
- Yeast 
- Vegetative propagation 
- Growing a new plant from a piece of a plant 
- Kind of like budding and regeneration 
- Like regeneration but with plants, almost 
- Examples 
- Potatoes 
- Onions 
- Garlic 
- Strawberries 
- Grasses 
- Regeneration 
- Organism grows from pieces of a parent 
- Examples 
- Worms 
- Starfish 
- Planaria 
- Steps 
- Organism gets ‘damaged’ or cut 
- Organism regrows 
- If an arm is cut off, they can regrow the arm 
- The arm will also grow into another organism 
- Humans can’t do this because they are too complex organisms. If their arm is cut off, the skin will grow around it, but very unlikely the arm will grow back. 
- If the organism is cut into 3 pieces, there are 3 new organisms that will regrow, and so on. 
- Cloning 
- Making a genetically identical offspring from a parent that normally does sexual reproduction. 
- I don’t think this will be on the test, but probably scientists do this. 
- Binary fission (also called fission) 
- In prokaryotic cells without a nucleus 
- A process where a cell divides into 2 daughter cells 
- Steps 
- 1 parent cell starts to divide 
- Some organelles go to one side of the cell, some to the other 
- Cytoplasm divides 
- 2 daughter cells that are identical to the parent are created. 
- These need to grow and develop in order to reproduce again. 
- Mitosis 
- Binary fission in cells WITH a nucleus 
- Makes body cells 
- How there is growth/ repair/ development 
- A zygote turns into a baby by using Mitosis 
- Steps 
- Cell Life Cycle 
- PMAT 
- Or IPMAT 
- Interphase 
- Growth and development phase 
- Cell spends most time in this phase 
- Chromosomes can’t be seen 
- Non-dividing stage, resting stage 
- Everything is functioning fine 
- Prophase 
- Nuclear membrane & nucleus starts to disappear, evaporate, disintegrate 
- Centrioles go to opposite sides of the cell 
- Double stranded chromosomes are visible (chromosomes with 2 chromatins) 
- Spindle fibers appear (part of the cytoskeleton.) 
- Start to stretch across the cell 
- Metaphase 
- Chromosomes form a line in the middle of a cell. 
- Spindle fibers attach to centrioles (the centromere part of the centriole) 
- Nuclear membrane is completely gone 
- Anaphase 
- The chromosomes are split and go to opposite sides of the cell 
- (organelles are scattered, some on one side, some on the others.) 
- Centromere divides (the part of the chromosome that the spindle fiber attaches to) 
- Telophase (animal cells) 
- Splitting begins (cytoplasm splits) 
- Nuclear membrane starts to reappear, and so does nucleus (forms around chromosomes) 
- Spindle fibers disappear 
- Chromosomes turn into chromatin material 
- The opposite of prophase 
- Cell membrane pinches in the middle and then splits 
- Telophase (plant cells) 
- Cell plate forms between the 2 new daughter cells 
- New cell walls form around the cell plate 
- Daughter cells created 
- 2 new daughter cells formed 
- Have identical chromosomes as each other and parent cells. 
- Identical, and the same 
- For growth/ repair of a eukaryotic organism 
- Sexual Reproduction 
- Complex organisms 
- Multicellular organisms 
- Humans 
- A human has 46 chromosomes in 1 cell. In the sheet, we will have 46 for cells and 23 for gametes, like a human. 
- Produce offspring that are not identical to the parent 
- Variety 
- 2 parents 
- Meiosis 
- Produces gametes 
- If they don’t use the gamete, it dies, gets discarded 
- 2 parents each contribute 1 gamete (has 23 chromosomes) 
- Male- sperm 
- Female- egg 
- Happens in reproductive organs 
- For the reproductive system 
- Steps 
- Begins as Mitosis 
- PMAT- (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase) 
- Or IPMAT 
- Interphase 
- Growth and development phase 
- Cell spends most time in this phase 
- Chromosomes can’t be seen 
- Non-dividing stage, resting stage 
- Everything is functioning fine 
- Prophase 
- Nuclear membrane starts to disappear, evaporate, disintegrate 
- Centrioles go to opposite sides of the cell 
- Double stranded chromosomes are visible (chromosomes with 2 chromatins) 
- Spindle fibers appear (part of the cytoskeleton.) 
- Start to stretch across the cell 
- Metaphase 
- Chromosomes form a line in the middle of a cell. 
- Spindle fibers attach to centrioles (the centromere part of the centriole) 
- Nuclear membrane/ nucleus is completely gone 
- Anaphase 
- The chromosomes are split and go to opposite sides of the cell 
- (organelles are scattered, some on one side, some on the others.) 
- Centromere divides (the part of the chromosome that the spindle fiber attaches to) 
- Telophase (animal cells) 
- Splitting begins (cytoplasm splits) 
- Nuclear membrane starts to reappear, and so does nucleus (forms around chromosomes) 
- Spindle fibers disappear 
- Chromosomes turn into chromatin material 
- The opposite of prophase 
- Cell membrane/ cytoplasm pinches in the middle and then splits 
- Telophase (plant cells) 
- Cell plate forms between the 2 new daughter cells 
- New cell walls form around the cell plate 
- Quickly splits the daughter cell in half so it creates haploids 
- 4 haploids/ gametes created 
- Fertilization 
- When a sperm and egg cell combine to create a zygote 
- Steps 
- Meiosis happens 
- Sperm and egg cell meet 
- Creates a zygote 
- Grows and develops using mitosis 
- Phases 
- Embryo 
- Fetus 
- Baby 
- Steps Simplified 
- Meiosis 
- Fertilization 
- Mitosis (Zygote grows/ develops using Mitosis) 
- Similarities/ Differences between the 2 types of reproduction 
- Similarities 
- Cells divide 
- All offsprings have the same # of chromosomes as the parents 
- Forms of reproduction 
- Produces offspring 
- Need parents 
- Differences 
- Asexual reproduction 
- Quicker 
- No variety 
- Growth and development of organisms 
- Produces identical offsprings 
- 1 parent 
- Not complicated organisms 
- PMAT- (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase) happens once 
- Sexual reproduction 
- Slower 
- A lot of variety 
- Not growth/ development 
- Produces different offsprings (from each other, not all are exactly the same) 
- 2 parents 
- Complicated organisms 
- PMAT- (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase) happens twice 
 
 
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