The word Meiosis is formed from the Greek words meious meaning to reduce and osis meaning state. In that process the actual cells
The nucleus and cytoplasm divide to form four daughter cells and the chromosome number of the daughter cell is half the number of chromosomes of the mother cell is called meiosis. It is also called reductive or reductional division. The word Miosis is spelled Meiosis based on the Greek root word meioum.