How does meiosis change chromosome number?

1 Answer
Mar 2, 2018

It reduces the number of chromosomes by half.

Explanation:

During meiosis, cell division makes the number of chromosomes get reduced to only a half of the original. Four new daughter haploid cells are produced from the original cell, and each have distinct genes from the parent cell.

That is all I know currently about meiosis. You can read more about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis