How does meiosis produce haploid gametes?
In , the cell undergo two rounds of division but the chromosomes divides once, so the four daughter cells have half of the chromosomes of the parent cell.
Meiosis occurs in germ-cells. The mother cell contains ‘2n’ chromosomes, it’s the ‘diploid’ state. Meiosis division has two stages : meiosis-1 and 2. In meiosis-1, the nucleus of the mother cell divides, as well as the chromosomes and results in two daughter cells, each having ‘n’ number of chromosomes, this is the ‘haploid’ state. In meiosis-2, the two daughter cells undergo a division like and produces two more cells, four in total, each having ‘n’ chromosomes. If the cell division produces gametes, two gametes with ‘n’ chromosomes fuses and produce a diploid cell.