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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:
 
Column-I Column–II
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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In which of the following stage, the chromosome is thin and like a long thread?
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The phase between meiosis I and meiosis II is known as _____.
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The meiotic process by which homologous chromosomes are paired during prophase I is called
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Pachytene occurs during
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Meiosis is the division of _____ cells.
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When paternal and maternal chromosomes change their material with each other in cell division, this event is called
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Crossing over leads to _____ formation. (synapsis, metaphase plate, chiasma, spindle)

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Four chromatids and two centromeres which are homologous occurs in
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During zygotene _____ chromosomes pair.
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At what phase of meiosis are there two cells, each with sister chromatids aligned at the spindle equator
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Chromonemata start associating into bivalent chromosomes during
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There are _____ numbers of cells produced at the end of the cytokinesis after meiosis from one cell. (Answer in numeric form)
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Homologous pairing in prophase I of meiosis I is called
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_____ cells are undergoing meiotic cell division. (Somatic, Root tip, Germ, Hepatic)

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During the first metaphase of meiosis the centromeres
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Prophase of reduction division is divided into a number of stages. The correct chronological sequence is
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Recombinases are _____ recombination enzymes. 
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Reproductive cells are produced by _____. (mitotic division, equational division, meiosis, amitosis)