: a usually long and single nerve-cell process that usually conducts impulses away from the cell body.â axÂ·oÂ·nal \Ëak-sÉn-Él; ak-Ësaen-, -ËsÃ¤n-\ ËsÅn. adjective a usually long and single nerve-cell process that usually conducts impulses away from the cell body.
The significance of meiosis :-. 1. It maintains the same chromosome n umber in the sexually reproducing organisms. From a diploid cell, haploid gametes are produced which in turn fuse to form a diploid cell. 2. It restricts the multiplication of chromosome number and maintains the stability of the species. 3. Maternal and paternal genes get exchanged during crossing over.
Meiosis is significant because this kind of cell division is, as everyone has stated, what allows sexual reproduction to occur. The two parts of meiosis occur in the same sequence as mitosis but with a couple of important differences. Each cell st...