Meiosis is a special type of cell division necessary for sexual reproduction. In animals, meiosis produces gametes, whilst in other organisms, such as fungi, it generates spores. Whilst the process of meiosis bears a number of similarities with the the 'life-cycle' cell division process of mitosis, it differs in two important respects:- the chromosomes in meiosis undergo a recombination which shuffles the genes producing a different genetic combination in each gamete, compared with the co-existence of each of the two separate pairs of each chromosome (one received from each parent) in each cell which results from mitosis...