Every general-chemistry student learns of Robert Boyle (1627–1691) as the person who discovered that the volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure and vice versa—the famous Boyle's law. A leading scientist and intellectual of his day, he was a great proponent of the experimental method.
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In a system of sexual reproduction, you have genes coming from both an egg and the sperm. Therefore, it'll only contain half the total amount of chromosomes (46 in humans). A sperm will have 23, and the egg will have the other 23. Is that what you meant why the chromosomes are cut out in pairs? If that wasn't your question, please elaborate and I'll return to answer it to the best of my capabilities.
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Mitosis is a neccessary process that helps the creation of life. The purpose of it is to make cells to regrow and replace old, dead, and/or wornout cells. What happens during mitosis is that a single cell will duplicate each and every one of its contents. This includes chromosones and more. It will then split into two identical daughter cells. This is how it makes it's newer cells.
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