MEIOTIC REDUCTION. “A question of central importance to heredity in sexually reproducing eukaryotes is how haploid gametes are generated from diploid somatic cells. The answer lies in a specialized form of cell division during which the number of chromosomes is reduced. In 1905, Farmer and Moore termed this specialized form of cell division meiosis (derived from the Greek word, meaning “reduction”).”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022