The answer would be "production of gametes" or the first option. Is a mature haploid male or female germ cell which could collide with the opposite sex of the germ cell then for a thing called a zygote which is diploid cell that was formed because of the two gametes cells.
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Answer:
1) the genes and chromosomes do not double after each generations because parental sex cells are haploid and only contain one set of chromosomes. During fertilization the two cells fuse to form a diploid zygote with two copies of genes and chromosomes. For example a normal human has 46 chromosomes (2 copies of 23 chromosomes) during reproduction gametes which contain 23 chromosomes (haploid) fuse to form an offspring with the correct number of chromosomes ( 23 + 23 = 46).
2) offspring only receive one set of chromosomes from each parent so to maintain the chromosome number of humans. If this did not happen you would not be the same species.
Probably very distantly, but sharks are fish, and dolphins are mammals.
