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What is the total number of cellular DNA molecules present during prophase I in a human cell undergoing meiosis?

Important Questions on Cell Cycle and Cell Division

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Match the stages of meiosis of Column-I to their characteristic features in Column-II and select the correct option using the codes given below:
 
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a. Pachytene (i) The pairing of homologous chromosomes
b. Metaphase I (ii) Terminalization of chiasmata
c. Diakinesis (iii) Crossing-over takes place
d. Zygotene (iv) Chromosomes align at the equatorial plate
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The enzyme recombinase is required at which stage of meiosis:
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Meiosis is evolutionary significant because it results in
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The phase between meiosis I and meiosis II is known as _____.
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Recombination is involved in the process of:
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Synapsis occurs between :
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Meiosis is the division of _____ cells.
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The exchange of genetic material between chromatids of paired homologous chromosomes during the first meiotic division is called
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Crossing over leads to _____ formation. (synapsis, metaphase plate, chiasma, spindle)

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Synaptonemal complex is formed during
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During zygotene _____ chromosomes pair.
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In meiosis, division is:
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The intrameiotic interphase is called:
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_____ (Chromosomes/cell organelles) get enclosed within nuclei during Telophase-I.
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Meiosis I is reductional division. Meiosis II is equational division due to
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_____ cells are undergoing meiotic cell division. (Somatic, Root tip, Germ, Hepatic)

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During which stage of meiosis, do tetrads line up at the equator?
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During meiosis I, the bivalent chromosomes clearly appear as tetrads during
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Recombinases are _____ recombination enzymes. 
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Reproductive cells are produced by _____. (mitotic division, equational division, meiosis, amitosis)