Second Meiotic Division (Meiosis II / Homotypic Division)

During the second meiotic division, the two haploid cells produced by the first meiotic division each divide further, yielding four haploid cells in total. This division closely resembles ordinary mitosis in the way it proceeds — through prophase-II, metaphase-II, anaphase-II, telophase-II and cytokinesis-II. The daughter cells produced in this second division are identical to the cells that entered it, in terms of chromosome number (the haploid number already established by meiosis-I) — and it is precisely because the chromo …