You Are Giving a Guest Lecture to a Bunch of College

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Essay

You are giving a guest lecture to a bunch of college students. Define three types of autonomy and describe an example of each.

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Definitions:

Hormone

Biological substances synthesized by glands in multicellular organisms, transported by the circulatory system to distant organs to regulate physiology and behavior.

Diploid

Refers to cells that have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent.

Meiosis

A type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, resulting in four distinct daughter cells, each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, crucial for sexual reproduction.

Chromosomes

Threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes and convey genetic information in the nucleus of cells.