Sex cells
Also known as gametes.
In Biology or life science, meiosis (pronounced my-oh-sis) is a process of reductional division in which the number of chromosomes per cell is cut in half. In animals, meiosis always results in the formation of gametes, while in other organism it can give rise to spores. The word "meiosis" comes from the Greek verb meioun, meaning "to make small," since it results in a reduction of the chromosome number.
Meiosis is essential for sexual reproduction and therefore occurs in all eukaryotes (including single-celled organisms) that reproduce sexually. A few eukaryotes, notably the Bdelloid rotifers, have lost the ability to carry out meiosis and have acquired the ability to reproduce by parthenogenesis. Meiosis does not occur in archaea or bacteria, which reproduce via asexual processes such as binary fission.
During meiosis, the genome of a diploid germ cell, which is composed of long segments of DNA packaged into chromosomes, undergoes DNA replication followed by two rounds of division, resulting in four haploid cells. Each of these cells contain one complete set of chromosomes, or half of the genetic content of the original cell. If meiosis produces gametes, these cells must fuse during fertilization to create a new diploid cell, or zygote before any new growth can occur. Thus, the division mechanism of meiosis is a reciprocal process to the joining of two genomes that occurs at fertilization. Because the chromosomes of each parent undergo genetic recombination during meiosis, each gamete, and thus each zygote, will have a unique genetic blueprint encoded in its DNA. Together, meiosis and fertilization constitute sexuality in the eukaryotes, and generate genetically distinct individuals in populations.
In all plants, and in many protists, meiosis results in the formation of haploid cells that can divide vegetatively without undergoing fertilization, referred to as spores. In these groups, gametes are produced by mitosis.
Meiosis uses many of the same biochemical mechanisms employed during mitosis to accomplish the redistribution of chromosomes. There are several features unique to meiosis, most importantly the pairing and genetic recombination between homologous chromosomes.
meiosis occurs in sex cells only while other somatic cells undergo mitosis. they cannot undergo meiosis
Gametes (sex cells) are the only cells that undergo meiosis.
reproductive cells (gametes) - spermatozoa and eggs
The testes (males) and the ovaries (females).
Sperm cells are the only cells that undergo meiosis because they are single chromosome gametes
Gametes (sex cells) undergo meiosis.
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sex cells
Meiosis is a special type of cell division that occurs only within the ovaries and testes.
The type of cell division is meiosis
Meiosis occurs in gametes or reproductive cells.
meiosis
Chemotherapy may or may not affect meiosis and mitosis. It is not a type of cell division.
Meiosis is a special type of cell division that occurs only within the ovaries and testes.
Meiosis could not be a type of cell division that produces new skin cells because meiosis is a cell division necessary for sexual reproduction only.
only in meosis
That is meiosis.
The type of cell division is meiosis
Meiosis is the type of cell division that produces haploid cells.
Meiosis occurs in gametes or reproductive cells.
meiosis
Chemotherapy may or may not affect meiosis and mitosis. It is not a type of cell division.
During the formation of gametes - a process called gametogenesis - meiosis is a process which only occurs during this period. Meiosis is a special type of cell division necessary for sexual reproduction.
Meiosis only occurs in sex cells, which are the sperm and egg cells. Mitosis occurs in the somatic, or body, cells.
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