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How many copies of each chromosome are in the parent cell prior to undergoing meiosis?.

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Before germ cells enter meiosis, they are generally diploid, meaning that they have two homologous copies of each chromosome. Then, just before a germ cell enters meiosis, it duplicates its DNA so that the cell contains four DNA copies distributed between two pairs of homologous chromosomes.

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