Meiosis may be defined as a type of cell division in which four daughter haploid cells are produced from the single diploid cell. Meiosis is also known as reduction division as the chromosome number is reduced to half as compared with the original parent cell.
Meiosis is divided into meiosis I and meiosis II. The meiosis is similar to mitosis as the each cells contain only one set of the homologous chromosomes.
