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Biology cell division question

hi, just a little confused by something in my textbook - a normal number of chromosomes is 46, diploid and half, haploid is 23. after meiosis I should the daughter cells not have a diploid number, as they contains the same amount of chromosomes as at the end of meiosis? and a haploid number at the end of meiosis II. bit confused, my textbook says the cells have a haploid number after both meiosis I and II.
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Original post by fizzywizzybizzy
hi, just a little confused by something in my textbook - a normal number of chromosomes is 46, diploid and half, haploid is 23. after meiosis I should the daughter cells not have a diploid number, as they contains the same amount of chromosomes as at the end of meiosis? and a haploid number at the end of meiosis II. bit confused, my textbook says the cells have a haploid number after both meiosis I and II.

Ploidy refers to the number of complete sets of chromosomes. During meiosis I, homologous chromosomes are separated into two daughter cells. At the end of meiosis I, you have two daughter cells with 23 chromosomes (albeit, each chromosome is made up of two chromatids) and therefore they are haploid.

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