Before revision: Within the normal reproductive cycle, haploidisation is one of the major functional consequences of meiosis, the other being a process of crossing over and homologous recombination that mingles the genetic content of the parental chromosomes.
After revision: Within the normal reproductive cycle, haploidisation is one of the major functional consequences of meiosis, the other being a process of chromosomal crossover that mingles the genetic content of the parental chromosomes.