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Explain the importance of meiosis in terms of chromosome number in the human life cycle.

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During meiosis, the number of chromosomes are reduced by half, which allowed reproduction to occur.
If meiosis did not happen, the cell will have too many DNA pairs, which will cause several complications for the offspring.
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