What is meiosis?

Cell division to maintain the number of chromosomes .

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Cell division to reduce the number of chromosomes to half.

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Cell division used for asexual reproduction.

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Cell division used for growth and development.

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The correct option is B Cell division to reduce the number of chromosomes to half.
Meiosis is a type of cell division seen in gamete formation. Meiosis is reductional division because daughter cells get only half the number of chromosomes from their parent cells.

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Why the chromosomes number has reduced into half in daughter cells during meiosis division?

________ type of cell division reduces chromosome number to half in sex cells.

Mitosis is the type of cell division where the number of chromosomes is maintained and in meiosis a diploid cell becomes a haploid cell.

Reduction of number of chromosomes during sexual reproduction is controlled by meiotic cell division.

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