Question

What are autosomes?

Answer 1

1)An autosomes is any of the numbered chromosomes, as it is opposed to sex chromosomes humans have 22 pairs of autosomes and has one pair of sex chromosomes that is X and Y chromosomes

2)The X and Y chromosomes are also known as sex chromosomes it determines the biological of the sex of an individual females inherit an X chromosome from the father for a XX genotype while the males inherit the Y chromosome from the father for a XY genotype

Note : mother's only can pass on X chromosome

3) During the DNA synthesis phase the cell replicates chromosomes during its mitosis phase the duplicated chromosomes are segregated (that sets apart from the rest of from everyone that gets divided is called segregated)and migrating to opposite of the cell .

4)*The first stage of the cell cycle is interphase

*The second stage of the cell cycle is division of the nucleus

*The third stage of the cell cycle is cytokinesis

Cytokinesis means th division of cytoplasm of a cell at the end of mitosis bringing about the seperation into the two daughter cells is called cytokinesis.