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meiosis  Meiosis is a type of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes in gametes  Summary of Meiosis I The chromosomes are copied during interphase This forms two identical sister chromatids that are attached together

In mitosis, both the parent and the daughter nuclei contain the same number of chromosome sets—diploid for most plants and animals Meiosis employs many of the The meaning of MEIOSIS is the presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect : understatement

MEIOSIS 1 of rice encodes a putative coiled - coil protein required for homologous chromosome pair- ing in meiosis Plant Cell 2004 ; 16 : 1008–1020 44 Meiosis has two stages of cell division called meiosis I and meiosis II During meiosis I