The origin and function of meiosis are currently not well understood scientifically, and would provide fundamental insight into the evolution of sexual...

meiosis appears to be repair of DNA damages, particularly double-strand breaks (also see Origin and function of meiosis).[citation needed] The PALB2-BRCA1...

evolutionary origin and adaptive significance of sexual reproduction are discussed in the pages Evolution of sexual reproduction and Origin and function of meiosis...

and it is likely an adaptation for removing DNA damages, especially double-strand breaks, from germ line DNA (see Meiosis and Origin and function of meiosis)...

Meiosis (/maɪˈoʊsɪs/ ; from Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis) 'lessening', since it is a reductional division) is a special type of cell division of germ...

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recombinational repair (see Origin and function of meiosis). Human primary oocytes are present at an intermediate stage of meiosis, that is prophase I (see...

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spores by meiosis, a process which reduces the number of chromosomes to half, from two sets to one. The resulting haploid spores germinate and grow into...

H., Bernstein, C. Evolutionary origin and adaptive function of meiosis. In "Meiosis", Intech Publ (Carol Bernstein and Harris Bernstein editors), Chapter...