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Question
State the basic requirement for sexual reproduction?
Solution
The basic requirements for sexual reproduction to take place are involvement of two parents and fusion of their haploid gametes. In the sexual reproduction, a new individual is formed by the fusion of two haploid gametes, one from the male parent and the other from the female parent. Since the new individual formed is diploid in nature, the gametes must be formed by meoisis, so that chromosome number can be reduced to half. When fusion of gametes occurs, the two nuclei of these two gametes fuse and the chromosome number is then restored to normal. The zygote, thus, formed is diploid in nature.
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