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meiosis ?
0.1. Whatis
cel,
Ans.
Meiosis is a double division which occurs in diploid cells and gives rise to four haploid
each having half the number of chromosomes as compared to the parent cell.
a2, Atwhat stage does the crossing over takes place ?
Ans. It occurs pachytene stage.
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over ?
0.3. What is crossing
chromatids of
Ans. It is the process of exchange of chromatid segments between non-sister
homologous chromosomes during pachytene stage of meiosis I.
the significance of meiosis ?
0.4. What is
Ans. Itis responsible for recombination of paternal and maternal genes in the ganetes.

0.5. In which cells oftestis, meiosis takes place ?

Ans. In spermatocytes.

Q.6. What is spermatogenesis?

Ans. It is the process of formation of sperms in the testis.

Q.7. What is the significance of meiosis during sperm formation ?

Ans. Meiosis reduces the chromosome number to half in sperm. It maintains
the chromosome
number constant in a sexually reproducing organism.
Q,8. Do you expect to find the same number of chromosomes in the testes of grasshopper
and other insects?
Ans. No, each species has different (hixed) number of chromosomes.

Q.9. Why is meiosis I known as reduction division?

Ans. It reduces the number of chromosomes in a cell from diploid (2n) to the haploid (7) number.

Q.10. Why is meiosis II known as the equational division ?

Ans. Meiosis lIlis similar to mitosis which separates the two chromatids of each chromosome and
thus, the daughter cells have the same number of chromosomes.