{"id":880,"date":"2024-04-18T20:50:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2024-04-18T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:50:31","slug":"eukaryotic-cell-division-meiosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/eukaryotic-cell-division-meiosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Eukaryotic Cell Division: Meiosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Also called&nbsp;<strong>reductional division<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The process by which the meiotic type of eukaryotic cell division occurs is relatively more complex than both prokaryotic binary division\/budding and eukaryotic mitotic type of cell division.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Just prokaryotes, this type of eukaryotic cell division process is an essential means of reproduction. It ensures that gamete formation occurs properly and genetic diversity is maintained in the species.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amongst the 2 types of cell divisions in eukaryotic organisms, meiosis is the second type.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This type of cell division occurs in sexually reproducing organisms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Just like mitosis, DNA, and organelles are replicated in the interphase before meiotic cell division.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meiosis comprises 2 sets of divisions:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Meiosis I<\/strong>\u00a0(marked by the separation of\u00a0homologous chromosomes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Meiosis II<\/strong>\u00a0(marked by separation of\u00a0sister chromatids; this is similar to mitosis)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the end of meiotic cell division, four daughter cells (gametes) are formed, unlike 2 daughter cells in mitotic cell division.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All daughter cells, i.e., gametes produced after meiosis have just 1 one copy of the genome, making them\u00a0haploid\u00a0(four haploid daughter cells).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only after one gamete fuses with the gamete of the opposite sex during fertilization, the ploidy level is restored.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cell-division"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cell-division.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}