Image caption Bridge is played by four players who form two partnerships and involves predicting the number of tricks each side will win. Bridge players who wanted the popular card game recognised as a sport have lost their High Court battle.
Meiosis occurs in diploid cells. The chromosomes duplicate once, and through two successive divisions, four haploid cells are produced, each with half the chromosome number of the parental cell. Meiosis occurs only in sexually reproducing organisms.
Not all cells divide through the process of mitosis. Organisms that reproduce sexually also undergo a type of cell division called meiosis. Meiosis occurs in sex cells and is similar in process to mitosis. After a complete cell cycle in meiosis however, four daughter cells are produced. Each cell contains one half the number of chromosomes as the original parent cell.