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Question
“First meiotic division is the reduction division” what does the word ‘reduction’ refer to in this statement?
Solution
In this statement, reduction means that the number of chromosomes are reduced to half i.e. out of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans, only single set of chromosomes are passed on to the sex cells.
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