Meiosis produces sex cells, while mitosis replicates cells from growth and repair. Meiosis, division of a germ cell involving two fissions of the nucleus and giving rise to four gametes, or sex cells, each with half the number of chromosomes of the original cell The process of meiosis is characteristic of organisms that reproduce sexually and have a diploid set of chromosomes in the nucleus. During meiosis one cell divides twice to form four daughter cells Meiosis can be divided into nine stages. The sex cells that contain only half of the normal number of chromosomes called the haploid number (the symbol is n)
The cell divides twice to form four gametes, each with a single set of chromosomes ( haploid close haploida sex cell (gamete) that contains one set of chromosomes To achieve half the number of chromosomes, the germ cells (the cells that form sperm and eggs) undergo a process called meiosis In human meiosis, each of the resulting cells has only one of each of your 23 chromosome pairs instead of 23 complete pairs of chromosomes. Human sex cells, like eggs and sperm, have only half the number of chromosomes because when they combine during fertilization, they create a new cell with the full set of chromosomes.
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