Question

Observe the diagram, and answer the question:
(a) Identify A and B.
(b) What is the function of C?
(c) In which of the marked part reduction division takes place? What is the significance of it?

Answer 1

a) A is spermatid and B is the germinal cell

b) C is the primary spermatocyte that undergoes meiosis 1 to form a secondary spermatocyte.

c) Reduction division takes place in primary spermatocyte (C).

Primary spermatocyte undergoes meiosis 1 to form secondary spermatocyte. Secondary spermatocyte undergoes meiosis 2 to form spermatids that mature into sperm cells.