Chapter 26.1, Problem 4QC

Summary Introduction

To review:

The number of daughter cells that can be potentially produced from one mother cell in meiosis.

Introduction:

Meiosis is the type of cell division that occurs in the gonads (ovaries and testes) to produce sex cells. It is also called the reductional division, as it always occurs in diploid cells and leads to the formation of haploid cells. Humans contain 46 chromosomes in diploid somatic cells and 23 chromosomes in haploid cells.