What role does meiosis have in sexual reproduction?

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Harsh
Dec 3, 2015

Meiosis is reductional division , it helps in formation of gametesenter image source here
As you can see in the figure , after meiosis is completed 4 haploid cells are produced which contains half the number of chromosomes of the parents.
The gametes formed during meiosis later undergo fertilisation to produce diploid zygote.enter image source here

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