NEETBotanyCell Cycle and Cell Division
What is the final outcome of meiosis?
Options
- AFour haploid cells with double the chromosome number of the parent
- BTwo diploid cells with the same chromosome number as the parent
- CFour haploid cells with half the chromosome number of the parent
- DTwo diploid cells with half the chromosome number of the parent
Correct answer
C. Four haploid cells with half the chromosome number of the parent
Step-by-step solution
These are leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, diplotene and diakinesis. During metaphase I the bivalents arrange on the equatorial plate. This is followed by anaphase I in which homologous chromosomes move to the opposite poles with both their chromatids. Each pole receives half the chromosome number of the parent cell. In telophase I, the nuclear membrane and nucleolus reappear. Meiosis II is similar to mitosis. During anaphase II the sister chromatids separate. Thus at the end of meiosis four haploid cells are formed