To protect vulnerable 16 and 17 year olds, the offences of 'abuse of a position of trust' prohibits sexual contact between adults and children under 18 in schools, colleges and residential care.
Chromosome abnormalities usually happen as a result of an error in cell division. Meiosis is the name used to describe the cell division that the egg and sperm undergo when they are developing. Normally, meiosis causes a halving of chromosome material, so that each parent gives 23 chromosomes to a pregnancy.
CELL DIVISION. Cell division is the process by which cells replicate in order to replace cell loss, repair tissue damage and. reproduce the organism. Two types of cell division are encountered in the Eukaryotic cell viz. Mitotic and Meiotic divisions. MITOSIS.