Question

Why meiosis is essential during gametes formation?

Answer 1

Meiosis is important because it ensures that all organisms produced through sexual reproduction contain the correct number of chromosomes.

Meiosis also produces genetic variation by way of the process of recombination.

The objective of meiosis is to make four cells from a single somatic cell.

The four cells each have half the chromosome number found in the somatic cell.

Answer 2

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.