During the process of meiosis, chromosomes replicate

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Ben Welch

8 January, 22:27

During the process of meiosis, chromosomes replicate

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During meiosis, chromosomes are replicated once in S phase (just like mitosis) into sister chromatids, but the cell divides twice. As with mitosis, the first step in this process is DNA replication, so that each of the 46 chromosomes exists as a duplicated sister chromatid.