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Meiosis is a type of cell division that reduces the number of chromosome sets from diploid to haploid and produces gametes or spores. It occurs in two stages, meiosis I and meiosis II, where homologous chromosomes pair up and may exchange genetic material in meiosis I. This results in haploid cells that each contain one chromosome from each homologous pair. In meiosis II, each chromosome splits in half and the sister chromatids separate, resulting in four haploid cells from each original cell that can mature into gametes.

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Meiosis is a type of cell division that reduces the number of chromosome sets from diploid to haploid and produces gametes or spores. It occurs in two stages, meiosis I and meiosis II, where homologous chromosomes pair up and may exchange genetic material in meiosis I. This results in haploid cells that each contain one chromosome from each homologous pair. In meiosis II, each chromosome splits in half and the sister chromatids separate, resulting in four haploid cells from each original cell that can mature into gametes.

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Meiosis is a type of cell division that reduces the number of chromosome sets from diploid to haploid and produces gametes or spores. It occurs in two stages, meiosis I and meiosis II, where homologous chromosomes pair up and may exchange genetic material in meiosis I. This results in haploid cells that each contain one chromosome from each homologous pair. In meiosis II, each chromosome splits in half and the sister chromatids separate, resulting in four haploid cells from each original cell that can mature into gametes.

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Meiosis is a type of cell division that reduces the number of chromosome sets from diploid to haploid and produces gametes or spores. It occurs in two stages, meiosis I and meiosis II, where homologous chromosomes pair up and may exchange genetic material in meiosis I. This results in haploid cells that each contain one chromosome from each homologous pair. In meiosis II, each chromosome splits in half and the sister chromatids separate, resulting in four haploid cells from each original cell that can mature into gametes.

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Meiosis

Meiosis is a special type of cell division necessary for sexual reproduction in eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi. The number of sets of chromosomes in the cell undergoing meiosis is reduced to half the original number, typically from two sets (diploid) to one set (haploid). The cells produced by meiosis are either gametes (the usual case in animals) or otherwise usually spores from which gametes are ultimately produced (the case in land plants). In many organisms, including all animals and land plants (but not some other groups such as fungi), gametes are called sperm in males and egg cells or ova in females. Since meiosis has halved the number of sets of chromosomes, when two gametes fuse during fertilization, the number of sets of chromosomes in the resulting zygote is restored to the original number. Meiotic division occurs in two stages, meiosis I and meiosis II, dividing the cells once at each stage. The first stage begins with a diploid cell that has two copies of each type of chromosome, one from each the mother and father, called homologous chromosomes. All homologous chromosomes pair up and may exchange genetic material with each other in a process called crossing over. Each pair then separates as two haploid cells are formed, each with one chromosome from every homologous pair. In the second stage, each chromosome splits into two, with each half, called a sister chromatid, being separated into two new cells, which are still haploid. This occurs in both of the haploid cells formed in meiosis I. Therefore from each original cell, four genetically distinct haploid cells are produced. These cells can mature into gametes.

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