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Why do cells made in meiosis have less genetic material than other cells?

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The cellular division in meiosis I is called the reduction division because it results in the reduction of the chromosome number from diploid (cell has two copies of each chromosome, one maternal and one paternal chromosome) to haploid (cell has only one copy of each chromosome, either maternally-derived or paternall.

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