So they can produce healthy offspring.
Yes. Called meiosis I and meiosis II.
Sex cells.
No, somatic (non-sex) cells have twice the number of chromosomes that sex cells have.
Cause body cells have twice the chromosomes a sex cell has Body cells have 46 chromosomes and sex cells have 23 chromosomes.
It is called mitosis when regular cells divide. It is called meiosis when sex cells divide.
No. Twice.
all cells except for sex cells
miosis
meiotic division
These are called permeant cells. Examples are adult neurons, striated muscles, cardiac muscle, RBCs and cells of lens in the eye.
All the cells that divide in your body, except for sex cells, which divide through meiosis, divide by mitosis.
A cell divide into four sex cells with half of the chromosomes. Meiosis only occurs in the genital with sex cells.