Two daughter cells are produced in meiosis.

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Meiosis can be divided into two stages i.e. meiosis I and meiosis II. During these two stages, four haploid daughter cells are formed having half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell. During mitosis two diploid daughter cells are formed having the same chromosome number as the parent.

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(a) Mitosis occurs in our ..... cells.
(b) Mitosis produces two daughter cells whereas meiosis produces ...... daughter cells.
(c) Meiosis occurs only in ..... cells.
(d) Modern humans have 46 chromosomes. Their sperms and eggs will have......chromosomes each.
(e) During the pairing of chromosomes in meiosis, the ...... chromosomes come to lie side by side.
(f) The.......(s) are surrounded by radiating rays and termed as aster.

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