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.
Meiosis, on the other hand, reduces the number of sets of chromosomes by half, so that when gametic recombination (fertilization) occurs the ploidy of the parents will be reestablished. Most cells in the human body are produced by mitosis. These are the somatic (or vegetative) line cells.