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Is the following sentence true or false? During meiosis, the two alleles for each gene stay together.

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False

Step-by-step explanation:

During meiosis, a cell goes from a diploid stage to a haploid stage. So no, the alleles do not stay together.

The Meiosisi is basically a process by which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half to form a sex cell.

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