Expert: Walter Hintz - 11/27/2009

Question
Hello, Mr. Hintz.
I'm a home-schooling highschool student.
Would you please help me?
These are some questions.

1. How are the cells at the end of meiosis different from the cells at the beginning of meiosis?

2. What is the significance of meiosis to sexual reproduction?

3. Why are there so many varied phenotypes within a species such as humans?

4. If the diploid number of a plant is 10, how many chromosomes would you expect to find in its triploid offspring?

5. How do the events that take place during meiosis explain Mendel's law of independent assortment? (most important)

Here is Asia, and I really need your help.
Thanks.

Answer
I will be glad to help you Michael but I have a strict policy that I follow. I will not answer questions for you but I will respond to your answers. It is up to you to answer these questions and then I will tell you if you are correct or not and if you are wrong I will explain why. To do otherwise is unfair to you because you will not learn anything.  If this is satisfactory to you send me your answers. If not you can easily find somebody on this forum that will do your for you