Learning Objectives

1. Contrast asexual and sexual types of reproduction that occur on the cellular and multicellular organism levels.
2. Understand the effect that meiosis has on chromosome number.
3. Describe the events that occur in each meiotic phase.
4. Compare mitosis and meiosis; cite similarities and differences.
5. Show where meiosis generally occurs in plant life cycles and contrast this with where it generally occurs in animal life cycles.