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CAIE IGCSE Biology 17.3.1 Meiosis Produces Gametes

Practise identifying meiosis as the cell division that produces haploid gametes or reproductive cells.

Syllabus
2026–2028
Course
Biology 0610

Exam points

  • name meiosis as the process producing sperm, egg cells and pollen nuclei
  • link meiosis to haploid cells with one set of chromosomes
  • explain that fertilisation restores the diploid number from two haploid gametes

17.3.1—Meiosis is involved in the production question 1

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Fig. 4.1 is a photograph of a bee on a flower. One of the bee's legs is covered with pollen.

Fig. 4.1

Fig. 4.1

Sexual reproduction also occurs in humans.

Human male gametes are haploid.

State the name of the process that produces haploid male gametes.

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