CAIE IGCSE Biology 17.3.2 Meiosis as Reduction Division
Practise describing meiosis as chromosome-number reduction from diploid to haploid with genetically different cells.
- Syllabus
- 2026–2028
- Course
- Biology 0610
Exam points
- state that meiosis halves chromosome number from diploid to haploid
- calculate the chromosome number in meiotic products from a diploid parent cell
- distinguish meiosis from mitosis because its products are genetically different
17.3.2—Meiosis as a reduction division question 1
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Meiosis is another type of nuclear division.
Describe how the nuclei in cells produced by meiosis differ from the nuclei in cells produced by mitosis.
are genetically different (from each other and the parent cells) ;
(produce) haploid (nuclei) ; ref. to reduction division / chromosome number being halved ;
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