Chapter 8
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Biology and Society:
Rain Forest Rescue
– Endangered species of plants that normally
reproduce sexually can be propagated by asexual
reproduction.
– Cell division is at the heart of organisms
reproduction, whether by sexual or asexual means.
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WHAT CELL REPRODUCTION ACCOMPLISHES
– Reproduction:
• May result in the birth of new organisms
• More commonly involves the production
of new cells
• When a cell undergoes reproduction, or
cell division, two “daughter” cells are
produced that are genetically identical to
each other and to the “parent” cell.
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Cell Division
– Cell division plays important roles in the lives
of organisms.
• Replaces damaged or lost cells
• Permits growth
• Allows for reproduction
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Colorized TEM
FUNCTIONS OF CELL DIVISION
Cell Replacement
Growth via Cell Division
Human kidney cell
Early human embryo
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Figure 8.1a
Asexual Reproduction
• Single-celled organisms reproduce by simple cell
division
• There is no fertilization of an egg by a sperm
• The parent and its offspring have identical genes.
• Mitosis is the type of cell division responsible for:
– Asexual reproduction
– Growth and maintenance of multicellular organisms
– Some multicellular organisms, such as sea stars, can grow new
individuals from fragmented pieces.
– Growing a new plant from a clipping
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FUNCTIONS OF CELL DIVISION
Asexual Reproduction
Amoeba
Sea stars
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African Violet
Figure 8.1b
Sexual Reproduction
– Sexual reproduction requires fertilization of
an egg by a sperm using a special type of cell
division called meiosis.
– Thus, sexually reproducing organisms use:
• Meiosis for reproduction
• Mitosis for growth and maintenance
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Chromosomes
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Figure 8.3
Chromosomes
– Chromosomes:
• Are made of chromatin, a combination of DNA
and protein molecules
• Are not visible in a cell until cell division occurs
– Before a parent cell splits into two, it duplicates its
chromosomes, the structures that contain most of
the organism’s DNA.
– During cell division, each daughter cell receives
one set of chromosomes.
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Number of chromosomes
in body cells
Species
Indian muntjac deer
6
Koala
16
Opossum
22
Giraffe
30
40
Mouse
46
Human
Duck-billed platypus
54
60
Buffalo
Dog
78
102
Red viscacha rat
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Figure 8.2
Eukaryotic Cell Genetic Information
– Most genes are located on chromosomes in the cell
nucleus
– A few genes are found in DNA in mitochondria and
chloroplasts
– Each chromosome contains one very long DNA
molecule, typically with thousands of genes.
– The number of chromosomes depends on the
species.
– The DNA in a cell is packed into an elaborate,
multilevel system of coiling and folding.
– Histones are proteins used to package DNA.
– Nucleosomes consist of DNA wound around histone
molecules.
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DNA double helix
Histones
TEM
“Beads on
a string”
Nucleosome
Tight helical fiber
Looped domains
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Duplicated chromosomes
(sister chromatids)
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Centromere
Chapter 8
Figure 8.4
Chromosomes
– Before a cell divides, it duplicates all of its
chromosomes, resulting in two copies called sister
chromatids.
– Sister chromatids are joined together at a narrow
“waist” called the centromere.
– When the cell divides, the sister chromatids separate
from each other.
– Once separated, each chromatid is:
• Considered a full-fledged chromosome
• Identical to the original chromosome
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Chromosome (one
long piece of DNA)
Centromere
Sister
chromatids
Duplicated chromosome
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Figure 8.UN2
Chromosome
duplication
Sister
chromatids
Chromosome
distribution to
daughter cells
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Figure 8.5
The Cell Cycle
– A cell cycle is the orderly sequence of events that
extend from the time a cell is first formed from a
dividing parent cell to its own division into two cells.
– The cell cycle consists of two distinct phases:
• Interphase
• The mitotic phase
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Interphase
– Most of a cell cycle is spent in interphase.
– During interphase, a cell:
• Performs its normal functions
• Doubles everything in its cytoplasm
• Grows in size
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S phase (DNA synthesis;
chromosome duplication)
Interphase: metabolism and
growth (90% of time)
G1
Mitotic (M) phase:
cell division
(10% of time)
Cytokinesis
(division of
cytoplasm)
G2
Mitosis
(division of nucleus)
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Figure 8.6
Mitosis
– The mitotic (M) phase includes two overlapping
processes:
• Mitosis, in which the nucleus and its contents
divide evenly into two daughter nuclei
• Cytokinesis, in which the cytoplasm is divided in
two
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Mitosis and Cytokinesis
– Mitosis consists of four distinct phases:
• (A) Prophase
• (B) Metaphase
• (C) Anaphase
• (D) Telophase
– Cytokinesis typically:
• Occurs during telophase
• Divides the cytoplasm
• Is different in plant and animal cells
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INTERPHASE
Centrosomes
(with centriole pairs)
PROPHASE
Early mitotic
spindle
Chromatin
Plasma
membrane
Centromere
Chromosome, consisting
of two sister chromatids
Spindle
microtubules
LM
Nuclear
envelope
Centrosome
Fragments of
nuclear envelope
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Figure 8.7.a
METAPHASE
ANAPHASE
TELOPHASE AND CYTOKINESIS
Nuclear
envelope
forming
Spindle
Cleavage
furrow
Daughter
chromosomes
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Figure 8.7b
Mitosis and Cytokinesis
– During mitosis the mitotic spindle, a footballshaped structure of microtubules, guides the
separation of two sets of daughter chromosomes.
– Spindle microtubules grow from two centrosomes,
clouds of cytoplasmic material that in animal cells
contain centrioles.
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SEM
Cleavage
furrow
Cleavage furrow
Contracting ring of
microfilaments
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Daughter cells
Chapter 8
Figure 8.8a
Cell plate
forming
Daughter
nucleus
LM
Wall of
parent cell
Cell wall
Vesicles containing
cell wall material
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New cell wall
Daughter cells
Figure 8.8b
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Figure 8.10
Homologous Chromosomes
– Different individuals of a single species have the
same number and types of chromosomes.
– A human somatic cell:
• Is a typical body cell
• Has 46 chromosomes
– A karyotype is an image that reveals an orderly
arrangement of chromosomes.
– Homologous chromosomes are matching pairs of
chromosomes that can possess different versions of
the same genes.
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Pair of homologous
chromosomes
Centromere
Sister
chromatids
One duplicated
chromosome
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Figure 8.11
Human Chromosomes
– Humans have:
• Two different sex chromosomes, X and Y
• Twenty-two pairs of matching chromosomes,
called autosomes
– Humans are diploid organisms in which:
• Their somatic cells contain two sets of
chromosomes
• Their gametes are haploid, having only one set of
chromosomes
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Gametes and the Life Cycle of a Sexual Organism
– The life cycle of a multicellular organism is the
sequence of stages leading from the adults of one
generation to the adults of the next.
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Haploid gametes (n  23)
Egg cell
n
n
Sperm cell
FERTILIZATION
MEIOSIS
Multicellular
diploid adults
(2n  46)
2n
MITOSIS
and development
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Diploid
zygote
(2n  46)
Key
Haploid (n)
Diploid (2n)
Figure 8.12
Meiosis
– Humans are diploid organisms in which:
• Their somatic cells contain two sets of chromosomes
• Their gametes are haploid, having only one set of
chromosomes
– In humans, a haploid sperm fuses with a haploid egg
during fertilization to form a diploid zygote.
– Sexual life cycles involve an alternation of diploid and
haploid stages.
– Meiosis produces haploid gametes, which keeps the
chromosome number from doubling every
generation.
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Homologous
chromosomes
separate.
Chromosomes
duplicate.
Sister
chromatids
separate.
Pair of homologous
chromosomes in
diploid parent cell
Duplicated pair of
homologous
chromosomes
Sister
chromatids
MEIOSIS I
INTERPHASE BEFORE MEIOSIS
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MEIOSIS II
Figure 8.13-3
The Process of Meiosis
– In meiosis:
•
•
•
Haploid daughter cells are produced in diploid
organisms
Interphase is followed by two consecutive divisions,
meiosis I and meiosis II
Crossing over occurs
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MEIOSIS I: HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES SEPARATE
INTERPHASE
Centrosomes
(with centriole
pairs)
Nuclear
envelope
Chromatin
Chromosomes
duplicate.
PROPHASE I
Sites of
crossing over
Spindle
Sister
chromatids
Pair of
homologous
chromosomes
Homologous
chromosomes
pair up and
exchange
segments.
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METAPHASE I
ANAPHASE I
Microtubules
attached
to chromosome
Sister chromatids
remain attached
Centromere
Pairs of
homologous
chromosomes
line up.
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Pairs of
homologous
chromosomes
split up.
Figure 8.14a
MEIOSIS II: SISTER CHROMATIDS SEPARATE
TELOPHASE I
AND
CYTOKINESIS
PROPHASE II
METAPHASE II
ANAPHASE II
TELOPHASE II
AND
CYTOKINESIS
Sister
chromatids
separate
Haploid
daughter
cells forming
Cleavage
furrow
Two haploid
cells form;
chromosomes
are still
doubled.
During another round of cell division, the sister
chromatids finally separate; four haploid
daughter cells result, containing single
chromosomes.
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Figure 8.14b
LM
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Figure 8.14bc
Review: Comparing Mitosis and Meiosis
– In mitosis and meiosis, the chromosomes duplicate
only once, during the preceding interphase.
– The number of cell divisions varies:
• Mitosis uses one division and produces two diploid
cells
• Meiosis uses two divisions and produces four
haploid cells
– All the events unique to meiosis occur during meiosis
I, while meiosis II is the same as mitosis since it
separates sister chromatids.
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MEIOSIS
MITOSIS
Prophase I
Prophase
Chromosome
duplication
Chromosome
duplication
Duplicated chromosome
(two sister chromatids)
MEIOSIS I
Parent cell
(before chromosome duplication)
2n  4
Homologous
chromosomes come
together in pairs.
Site of crossing over
between homologous
(nonsister) chromatids
Metaphase I
Metaphase
Homologous pairs
align at the middle
of the cell.
Chromosomes
align at the
middle of the
cell.
Anaphase I
Telophase I
Anaphase
Telophase
2n
Sister
chromatids
separate
during
anaphase.
Daughter cells
of mitosis
2n
Homologous
chromosomes
separate during
anaphase I;
sister chromatids
remain together.
Chromosome with two
sister chromatids
Daughter
cells of meiosis I
Haploid
n2
MEIOSIS II
Sister chromatids
separate during
anaphase II.
n
n
n
Daughter cells of meiosis II
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n
Figure 8.15
Independent Assortment of Chromosomes
– When aligned during metaphase I of meiosis, the side-byside orientation of each homologous pair of chromosomes
is a matter of chance.
– Every chromosome pair orients independently of the
others during meiosis.
– For any species the total number of chromosome
combinations that can appear in the gametes due to
independent assortment is:
• 2n where n is the haploid number.
– For a human:
• n = 23
• 223 = 8,388,608 different chromosome combinations possible
in a gamete
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POSSIBILITY 2
POSSIBILITY 1
Metaphase of
meiosis I
Metaphase
of meiosis II
Gametes
Combination a
Combination b
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Combination d
Figure 8.16-3
Random Fertilization
– A human egg cell is fertilized randomly by one
sperm, leading to genetic variety in the zygote.
– If each gamete represents one of 8,388,608
different chromosome combinations, at
fertilization, humans would have 8,388,608 ×
8,388,608, or more than 70 trillion, different
possible chromosome combinations.
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Figure 8.17
Crossing Over
– In crossing over:
• Homologous chromosomes exchange genetic
information
• Genetic recombination, the production of gene
combinations different from those carried by
parental chromosomes, occurs
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Prophase I
of meiosis
Homologous chromatids
exchange corresponding
segments.
Duplicated pair of
homologous
chromosomes
Chiasma, site of
crossing over
Metaphase I
Sister chromatids
remain joined at their
centromeres.
Spindle
microtubule
Metaphase II
Gametes
Recombinant
chromosomes
combine genetic
information from
Recombinant chromosomes
different parents.
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The Process of Science:
Do All Animals Have Sex?
– Observation: No scientists have ever found male
bdelloid rotifers, a microscopic freshwater
invertebrate.
– Hypothesis: Bdelloid rotifers have thrived for
millions of years using only asexual reproduction.
– Prediction: Bdelloid rotifers would display much
more variation in their homologous pairs of genes
than most organisms.
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The Process of Science:
Do All Animals Have Sex?
– Experiment: Researchers compared sequences
of a particular gene in bdelloid and nonbdelloid rotifers.
– Results:
• Non-bdelloid sexually reproducing rotifers had nearly
identical homologous genes
• Bdelloid asexually reproducing rotifers had homologous
genes that differed by 3.5–54%.
– Conclusion: Bdelloid rotifers have evolved for
millions of years without any sexual
reproduction.
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Figure 8.19
How Accidents during Meiosis Can
Alter Chromosome Number
– In nondisjunction, the members of a chromosome
pair fail to separate during anaphase, producing
gametes with an incorrect number of chromosomes.
– Nondisjunction can occur during meiosis I or II.
– If nondisjunction occurs, and a normal sperm
fertilizes an egg with an extra chromosome, the
result is a zygote with a total of 2n + 1
chromosomes.
– If the organism survives, it will have an abnormal
number of genes.
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NONDISJUNCTION IN MEIOSIS II
NONDISJUNCTION IN MEIOSIS I
Meiosis I
Nondisjunction:
Pair of homologous
chromosomes fails
to separate.
Meiosis II
Nondisjunction:
Pair of sister
chromatids
fails to separate.
Gametes
n1
n1
n–1
n–1
Number of
chromosomes
Abnormal gametes
n1
n–1
Abnormal gametes
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n
n
Normal gametes
Figure 8.20-3
Abnormal egg
cell with extra
chromosome
n1
Normal
sperm cell
Abnormal zygote
with extra
chromosome 2n  1
n (normal)
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Figure 8.21
Down Syndrome
– Down Syndrome:
• Is also called trisomy 21
• Is a condition in which an individual has an extra
chromosome 21
• Affects about one out of every 700 children
• The incidence of Down Syndrome increases with
the age of the mother.
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Chromosome 21
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Figure 8.22
Infants with Down syndrome
(per 1,000 births)
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Age of mother
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Figure 8.23
Abnormal Numbers of Sex
Chromosomes
– Nondisjunction can also affect the sex
chromosomes.
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Table 8.1
Evolution Connection:
The Advantages of Sex
– Asexual reproduction conveys an
evolutionary advantage when plants are:
• Sparsely distributed
• Superbly suited to a stable environment
– Sexual reproduction may convey an
evolutionary advantage by:
• Speeding adaptation to a changing environment
• Allowing a population to more easily rid itself of
harmful genes
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Figure 8.24
Cancer Cells: Growing Out of Control
– Normal plant and animal cells have a cell
cycle control system that consists of
specialized proteins, which send “stop” and
“go-ahead” signals at certain key points
during the cell cycle.
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What Is Cancer?
– Cancer is a disease of the cell cycle.
– Cancer cells do not respond normally to the cell cycle
control system.
– Cancer cells can form tumors, abnormally growing
masses of body cells.
– The spread of cancer cells beyond their original site of
origin is metastasis.
– Malignant tumors can:
• Spread to other parts of the body
• Interrupt normal body functions
– A person with a malignant tumor is said to have
cancer.
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Lymph
vessels
Tumor
Blood
vessel
Glandular
tissue
A tumor grows
from a single
cancer cell.
Metastasis: Cancer
cells spread through
lymph and blood
vessels to other parts
of the body.
Cancer cells invade
neighboring tissue.
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Figure 8.9
Cancer Treatment
– Cancer treatment can involve:
• Radiation therapy, which damages DNA and
disrupts cell division
• Chemotherapy, which uses drugs that disrupt
cell division
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Cancer Prevention and Survival
– Certain behaviors can decrease the risk of cancer:
• Not smoking
• Exercising adequately
• Avoiding exposure to the sun
• Eating a high-fiber, low-fat diet
• Performing self-exams
• Regularly visiting a doctor to identify tumors
early
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Distribution via
mitosis
Duplication
of all
chromosomes
Genetically
identical
daughter
cells
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Figure 8.UN1
S phase
DNA synthesis; chromosome duplication
Interphase
Cell growth and
chromosome duplication
G2
G1
Mitotic
(M) phase
Genetically
identical
“daughter”
cells
Cytokinesis
(division of
cytoplasm)
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Mitosis
(division of
nucleus)
Figure 8.UN3
Human Life Cycle
Haploid gametes (n  23)
Key
Haploid (n)
n
Egg cell
Diploid (2n)
n
Sperm cell
MEIOSIS
FERTILIZATION
Male and female
diploid adults
(2n  46)
Diploid
zygote
(2n  46)
MITOSIS
and development
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2n
Figure 8.UN4
MEIOSIS
MITOSIS
Parent
cell (2n)
Chromosome
duplication
Parent
cell (2n)
Chromosome
duplication
MEIOSIS I
Pairing of
homologous
chromosome
Crossing over
2n
Daughter
cells
2n
MEIOSIS II
n
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n
n
Daughter cells
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Figure 8.UN5
LM
(b)
(a)
(c)
(d)
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Figure 8.UN6