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What is meiosis ? Represent it diagramatically.

Ans. 1. Meiosis is a type of cell division leading to production of gametes. 

2. It is a process in which halving the number of chromosomes (2n to n) takes place resulting in the formation of haploid gametes. 

3. It occurs in reproductive cells. 

4. Diagramatically it can be represented as :