Question

All the following are the significances of equational division except:

• A. Growth of multicellular organisms and cell repair/replacement
• B. Maintenance of the constant number of chromosomes generation to generation
• C. Maintenance of the same number of chromosomes cell to cell
• D. Restoration of nucleo-cytoplasmic ratio of cells

Answer 1

The correct option is B Maintenance of the constant number of chromosomes generation to generation

Meiosis maintains a constant number of chromosomes in a species that reproduces sexually by reducing the number of chromosomes in the gamete cells to half. While role of mitosis is to maintain growth of organism, splicing maintains process of protein synthesis in eukaryotes, and metamorphosis is the process of change in physical form or structure of organism.