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Number of chromosomes in daughter cell after meiosis are

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The number of chromosomes is reduced from 46 (23 pairs) to 23 during the process of meiosis. Because they have only half the total chromosomes in a somatic cell, they are termed haploid. In a human egg or sperm, there are 23 chromosomes, one of which is an X or Y.i

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