18Q What do you think the main purpose of meiosis is?
1. To prepare for fertilization
2. To make germ cells
3. To produce the haploid
number of chromosomes
4. To reduce chromosome
numbers by 50%
5. None of the above
CORRECT! You might have been confused with #4. However one can reduce chromosome numbers 50% by eliminating half of the pairs. Meiosis does not do this. Meiosis reduces the number of chromosomes in germ cells to a single homologue of each pair. That is a 50% reduction but it is also the haploid number of chromosomes