A cell biologist examines a diploid cell from a barley plant during prometaphase of mitosis and determines that 28 chromatids are present. The role of meiosis in this plant is to reduce the number of chromosomes per cell from 14 to 7.
Explanation:
Meiosis is a process that happens in two different phases, and there are many more steps in every phase. This procedure reduces the number from diploid to haploid, that's why the number of chromosomes per cell reduces from 14 to 7. Thanks to this process we have diversity in every organism that has sexual reproduction.
Sperm must be deposited and transported to the site of fertilization. Ovulation must occur and the egg must be "picked up" by the tube. Union between the sperm and egg must result. The embryo must implant and begin to grow in the uterus.
