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Why meiosis is known as reductional division or heterotypic division?

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In meiosis -I, the homologous chromosomes seperate from each other and go to two different daughter cells. This reduces the number of chromosome from diploid to haploid condition. That is why meiosis-I is called heterotypic division or reduction division.
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