Question
What is the importance of haploid cells?
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Answer
- The gametes that take part in the sexual reproduction should be haploid.
- Otherwise the chromosome number will not be maintained at constancy. E.g. Parents have 2n = 46 chromosomes in their cells.
- If meiosis does not take place in them, the gametes formed will also contain 46 chromosomes.
- The resultant offspring will have 46 + 46 = 92 chromosomes.
- Such skewed number will produce large scale abnormalities.
- But due to meiosis, the gametes formed are haploid and thus the chromosome number is maintained constant for every species. Gametes are haploid cells, this is the most important fact.
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