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meiosis  Meiosis is a type of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes in gametes  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

An in vitro model of human meiosis would accelerate research into this important reproductive process and development of therapies for Meiosis is a type of cell division that reduces the number of chromosomes in the parent cell by half and produces four gamete cells

Phases of meiosis I In meiosis I, cells go through four phases: prophase I, metaphase I Lesson Summary Meiosis is a process in which a gamete-producing cell undergoes two cell divisions, known as meiosis I and meiosis II, to produce four gametes,