Mitosis is considered as a reduction division.Explain.

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It is not mitosis but meiosis that is referred to as reductional division.

Meiosis is called reduction division because during meiosis the number of chromosomes gets reduced to half. For example, if a cell has '2n' number of chromosome then after first meiotic division this number would be 'n'.

Gametes should be produced by meiosis because in sexual reproduction fusion of gametes takes place in order to retain the actual number of chromosomes.

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