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why is meiosis referred to as 'reduction division'?

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Answered by atharvaasthana98

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Meiosis is called reduction division because it reduces the number of chromosomes from diploid to haploid i.e it gets reduced from 2N to 1N (46 to 23) so as to maintain the species-specific number 46 chromosomes (23 pairs) from generation to generation

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Answered by ShreshthaSaha

Meiosis is called reduction division because number of chromosomes in daughter cells is reduced to half than that of parent cell. For example a human cell contain 46 chromosomes, but the egg and sperm cells produced as a result of meiotic division contain 23 chromosomes.

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