Kindly clear my doubt.

Question

What type of cell performs meiosis? Because the cell which is performing meiosis, is itself diploid which means it is formed from the process of mitosis and if it is true then why it is changing its reproduction mechanism i.e. from mitosis to meiosis?

Answer 1

Meiosis is a process where a single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing half the original amount of genetic information. These cells are our sex cells – sperm in males, eggs in females.

During meiosis one cell divides twice to form four daughter cells.
These four daughter cells only have half the number of chromosomes? of the parent cell – they are haploid.
Meiosis produces our sex cells or gametes (eggs in females and sperm in males).
Meiosis can be divided into nine stages. These are divided between the first time the cell divides (meiosis I) and the second time it divides (meiosis II):