Meiosis

Meiosis is a type of cell division that occurs in sexually reproducing organisms. It involves two successive divisions, known as meiosis I and meiosis II, resulting in the production of four non-identical haploid cells.

*Haploid cells are cells that have half the usual number of chromosomes. In humans, haploid cells are the sperm and egg cells, each containing one set of chromosomes (23 in total), and they fuse during fertilisation to form a diploid zygote with the full chromosome number.