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Why does meiosis produce cells with fewer chromosomes

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Because it "cuts" the mother cell in half, and the same with chromosomes, they'll be half the chromosomes on daughter cells.

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User Alisom Martins
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Answer:

The correct answer is involved in the formation of haploid gametes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Meiosis is a type of cell division which divides the parent cells into four daughter cells with a reduced number of chromosomes. This reduction in ploidy number occurs during meiosis I of meiosis reducing chromosome number.

Usually, this division is involved in the formation of gametes in the organisms in which gametes are produced with half number of chromosomes so that after fertilization of male (n) and female (n) gametes, the ploidy number of organism (2n) can be re-established without changing ploidy number.

Thus, involved in the formation of haploid gametes is the correct answer.

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