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Each mature egg or sperm carries only one chromosome from each pair. Which process is responsible for this?

Correct answer C. Reduction division

Explanation

Reduction division, or meiosis, halves the chromosome number from 46 to 23 so that fertilisation restores the full set in the zygote.

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