Meaning & use
meiosis
A type of cell division that produces reproductive cells containing half the usual number of chromosomes.
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The biology class studied how meiosis creates genetic variation among offspring.
Errors occurring during meiosis can lead to an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell.
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Meiosis differs from mitosis, which produces identical cells rather than reproductive cells with half the chromosomes.
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