Meiosis
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Meiosis is a special type of cell division of germ cells in sexually-reproducing organisms that produces the gametes, the sperm or egg cells. It involves two rounds of division that ultimately result
A diagram depicting nondisjunction in the maternal cell during the Meiosis I phase, resulting in gametes with an extra chromosome. Through fertilization of this egg, an offspring with the condition trisomy 21 is produced.
Germline
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In biology and genetics, the germline is the population of a multicellular organism's cells that develop into germ cells. In other words, they are the cells that form gametes, which can come together
Cormlets of Watsonia meriana, an example of apomixis
Clathria tuberosa, an example of a sponge that can grow indefinitely from somatic tissue and reconstitute itself from totipotent separated somatic cells