Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Health and Science/Heredity/39/en
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6A. What does the process of meiosis accomplish and how does it differ from mitosis?
Meiosis is employed to create gametes (gametes are called sperm in males and egg cells or ova in females), and occurs only for the creation of sex cells, not body cells. The resulting nuclei have only 1/2 the genetic information and must be mated to another sex cell nuclei to grow. In humans this means a sperm fertilizes an egg and a new life begins.
