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Meiosis I is the first stage of meiosis, a type of cell division that occurs in sexually reproducing organisms. During Meiosis I, the cell undergoes one round of DNA replication followed by two rounds of division, resulting in the formation of two daughter cells with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.

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