Which of the Following Statements Regarding Mitosis and Meiosis Is

question 64

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements regarding mitosis and meiosis is false?

• A)Meiosis only occurs in the ovaries and testes.
• B)All sexual life cycles involve an alternation of diploid and haploid stages.
• C)Mitosis produces daughter cells with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.
• D)A normal human zygote has 46 chromosomes.

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