
doi: 10.5772/29752
Meiosis is a process composed of two divisions of the germ line cells without an intervenient S phase, thus there is no duplication of DNA between the first and the second meiotic divisions. The first meiotic division begins with the pre-leptotene that is the stage where the DNA replicates and chromosomes prepare to enter the meiotic prophase I in most of the organisms with sexual reproduction (Marston & Amon, 2004). The first meiotic division separates one homologue chromosome from the other member of the pair and in this way the two produced cells contain half number of chromosomes with two chromatids. During the metaphase of the first meiotic division the maternal and the paternal chromosomes of the bivalents are oriented at random, so the two new haploid cells receive a random number of chromosomes of each progenitor.
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