Why does meiosis produce cells with fewer chromosomes?
a. it saves energy for the organism to produce fewer chromosomes.
b. most of an organism's chromosomes are not useful to the organism.
c. sexual reproduction joins two cells that each have half the total chromosome number.
d. telophase destroys most of the chromosomes to save time?

Answer:
The correct option is c ( sexual reproduction joins two cells that each have half the total chromosome number).
Reason:
Meiosis occurs only in reproductive cell in which the number of chromosome reduce to half. This phenomenon is very imoportant and essential for maintaining the number of chromosomes in species.

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Larus Larus · Answer 2 · 2022-01-25T10:46:39+01:00

Meiosis generate cells with fewer chromosomes as during se-xual reproduction the two cells are joined together and each cell will have half the total chromosome number.

• The formation of sperm and egg cells in se-xually reproducing organisms is done with the help of the phenomenon known as meiosis.

• The body cells are diploid in se-xually reproducing organisms as they comprise two sets of chromosomes one from each parent.

• It is important for meiosis to produce cells with lesser chromosomes as if not so the number of chromosome would get double in each and every generation.

Thus, the correct answer is option c.

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