Cell Cycle And Cell Division

The meiosis occurs in two steps meiosis and meiosis . In meiosis . There is segregation of homologous pairs, i.e. paired chromosomes get separated and go to different gametes. So, the number of chromosomes becomes half in the two cells produced in meiosis . This is the reason it is called as reduction division. Meiosis- is simply mitotic division in which two daughter cells produced in meiosis under go mitosis, thus produce four haploid daughter cells.

DNA replication takes place in the synthetic phase of interphase in the cells. It prepares cells to divide and the content of DNA becomes . during this phase in mitotic cell division.