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Explain why meiosis and gametogenesis are always interlinked?

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Gametogensis of refers to the process of formaiton of two types of gametes - male and female. Gametes are halpoid cell . Gametes in all heterogametic species are of two types e..,g male and famale . A haploid parent produced gametes by mitosis. But in majority of organisms, parent body is diploid . Thus meiosis is required by such diploid organisms , to produces haploid gameter. In diploid organisms , meipocytes undergo meiosis. At the end of meiosis only one set of chromosome gets incorported into each gamete .
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