Apoptosis requires digestive enzymes to be made in order to digest and kill the entire cell. Well, that's my hypothesis. I really don't know why, but I know that a burst of ethylene in plants trigger apoptosis to soften and ripen fruit, and the cell death destroys the webbing between your fingers wh...

The first one is easier to induce, which would in turn cause the cell to dehydrate anyway. It also depends on whether the cell is a plant cell or an animal cell. The cell walls are pretty tough and can resist a certain amount of pressure.

If you're a girl, this could be chromosome X inactivation.
If you're a boy, then I'm not quite sure.

The cell at the start of meiosis is not a gamete, but a germ cell (meaning it will divide itself into gametes in the reproductive organs). So, the cell starts out as 2n= 2 sets of chromosomes= a diploid cell (46 Chromosomes). Before it enters meiosis, its chromosomes have been duplicates (DNA synthe...