Cell with half the chromosomes number of the parent cell ____________________.
In animals, cells are denoted either as haploid or diploid, which depends on the number of chromosomes they contain. A somatic cell receives two set of chromosomes from both its parents, which makes it diploid. In humans, a diploid cell contains 46 chromosomes or 23 pairs. The number of chromosomes is denoted as ‘n’. The diploid cell is denoted as ‘2n’.
During meiosis, the diploid cells undergo reduction division to produce 4 daughter cells. All the daughter cells contain half the number of chromosomes (n=23) in contrast to that contained by the parent cell. Thus, the cells produced after meiosis are haploid cells called germ cells. These germ cells are sperms and eggs in males and females respectively.
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