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How many daughter cells are formed during meiosis?

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In meiosis, the parent cell which is diploid (has 2 copies of each chromosome(2n)) undergoes DNA replication followed by 2 separate cycles of nuclear division resulting in 4 haploid (n) daughter cells.

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