The purpose of meiosis is to produce male and female gametes for organisms that reproduce asexually, like for a starfish to regenerate a leg true or false

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Cierra Mullen

1 November, 20:07

The purpose of meiosis is to produce male and female gametes for organisms that reproduce asexually, like for a starfish to regenerate a leg true or false

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Danica Church · Answer 1

False

Explanation:

Meiosis is a specialized cell division process unique to sexually reproducing organism. This process features two round of reductive division that results in 'n' number of chromosomes from a '2n' parent cell.

Organisms that reproduce asexually do not need to produce male and female gametes. These organisms, however, produce identical copies of itself in order to propagate the species.