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mutaon can have a major impact. Two examples of diseases linked to
mosaicism are hemophilia, a blood-clong disorder, and Marfan syndrome,
which produces unusually long limbs.
Learning Tasks and A ssesment
Direcons: Apply your understanding of the concepts presented by answering
each of the following quesons.
A. Mitosis occurs daily in a human being. What types of cells are produced
in large quanes on a daily basis?
B. Meiosis generates four daughter cells that are genecally different from
each other and the parent cell. How is this possible?
C. Occasionally, cells escape from cell cycle regulaon and grow
uncontrollably. How can errors in the cell cycle lead to cancer in humans?
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