Cell Types

collage of tickets with different animal images on them: whale, tiger, lion, wolf and horse

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Your body has two types of cells depending on the number of chromosomes found in the nucleus--body cells and sex cells.

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Ok everybody; take out your entry tickets. Bet you didn�t notice that you all have different animals and plants on them. If you can match the animal tickets to the correct sex cell it produces.you can get them stamped for a free ice cream sandwich. Let�s review the rules of making a correct match If a Garden pea has 14 total chromosomes (diploid), the haploid cells (sperm and eggs) have 7 chromosomes each. In the below activity, you will need to match the parent (diploid) with it�s correct gamete (haploid cell).

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