Why is meiosis essential in sexually reproducing organusms?
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During sexual reproduction, meiosisgenerates genetic variation in offspring because the process 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 neworganism.
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Meiosis is an essential event in sexual life cycle of any organism. The following are the reasons :-
- It reduces the number of chromosomes in the gametes to half.
- It helps in maintaining the number of chromosomes constant in organisms.
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