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chickens have 78 chromosomes. will the cells produced via meiosis be diploid or haploid? how many chromosomes will be present in each cell?

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The cells produced via meiosis will be haploid.

Meiosis is the process of cell division that occurs in the gonads (ovaries and testes) to produce sperm and egg cells. The purpose of meiosis is to reduce the number of chromosomes in the resulting cells by half, so the cells produced are haploid, meaning they have half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.

Since chickens have 78 chromosomes, the cells produced via meiosis will have 39 chromosomes in each cell.

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