AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Therefore, if the meiocyte of an organism has 24 chromosomes, then the gamete will have 12 chromosomes.

Detailed explanation-2: -If the sperm and egg cells of a butterfly have six chromosomes, 12 chromosomes will be there in the maggot larvae. This is because maggot larvae forms due to the fusion of egg and sperm cells. Since egg contains 6 and sperm cells contains 6 chromosomes, maggot larvae will get both sperm cell and egg cell chromosomes.

Detailed explanation-3: -At the G1 stage, the cell has 24 chromosomes. Each chromosome has a single chromatid for a total of 24 chromatids. At the end of the G2 stage, the cell would have already completed replicating its DNA and would still have 24 chromosomes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hence it is called a reductional division. Thus, if a cell has 24 chromosomes before division, the number of chromosomes in the daughter cells produced from mitotic division would remain the same i.e., 24 and the number of chromosomes in the daughter cells resulting from meiosis will be 12.