What features of meiosis are important in sexual reproduction

During sexual reproduction, meiosis generates genetic variation in offspring because the process randomly shuffles genes across chromosomes and then randomly separates half of those chromosomes into each gamete. The two gametes then randomly fuse to form a new organism.

The daughter cells are identical to the mother cell in shape and size but different in chromosome number. The daughter cells are haploid. Recombination and segregation take place in meiosis. The process occurs in the reproductive organs and results in the formation of gametes.