[ 213 ] Life Science GED ® TEST SCIENCE FLASH REVIEW • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Mitosis and meiosis are both forms of cellular reproduction. Mitosis is the splitting of a cell into two with all the same genetic information being reproduced in both new cells. Meiosis involves splitting of a cell and combining with another cell, with the genetic information being split in half and combined with the other cell. Is each process in this list an example of mitosis or meiosis? • skin regeneration • blood production • pollen production • growth of a multicellular organism • egg cell production The genotype of an organism affects the phenotype of that same organism. A Punnett square can be used to represent the possible ________ that offspring of parents with known ___________ could have. Human males have an X and a Y chromosome while human females have two X chromosomes. Since meiosis involves splitting up the genetic information in the sex cells, do the male’s or the female’s chromosomes determine the sex of a human offspring?