Question

state the significance of meiosis

Answer 1

Sexual reproduction is able to generate genetic variation in offspring because the process of meiosis randomly shuffles genes across chromosomes and then randomly separates half of those chromosomes into each gamete. The two gametes then randomly fuse to form a new organism. Genetic variation is one of the keys to evolutionary fitness. This is made possible because reproductive cells undergo meiosis, which is the process in which one cell divides twice to produce four sperm or four eggs.

Answer 2

Meiosis is the process by which sexually reproducing organisms make their sexually cells,sperms and eggs .During meiosis , a specialised cell called a germ cell splits to make four new sex cells,each with half the number of chromosomes as the original germ cell.

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