Meiosis Process - News-Medical

meiosis  Meiosis has two stages of cell division called meiosis I and meiosis II During meiosis I In mitosis, both the parent and the daughter nuclei contain the same number of chromosome sets—diploid for most plants and animals Meiosis employs many of the

At the end of meiosis II, each cell would have half the original number of chromosomes, that is, 15 chromosomes 2 How many DNA molecules are Replicating the chromosomes Meiosis begins in a specific cell called a germ cell, which like most of the cells in our bodies is diploid, with 46 chromosomes in

At puberty, female sex hormones release the egg cells from prophase I arrest, and meiosis II begins Subsequently, egg cells arrested in metaphase II are The duplicated chromosomes align on a second spindle, and the sister chromatids separate to produce cells with a haploid DNA content Meiosis thus consists of a