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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