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What is meios...

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What is meiosis ? Name some organisms in which meiosis takes place?

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Meiosis is the specialized kind of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half (thus called reductional division) resulting in production of haploid daughter cells (gametes). It mainly takes place in the reproductive cells or sex cells.

Meiosis takes place in Animals, Plants, fungi.

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