The process that results in daughter cells with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell is meiosis.

Here's why:

* Meiosis is a type of cell division specifically for the production of gametes (sex cells like sperm and egg).

* The goal of meiosis is to reduce the number of chromosomes in half so that when two gametes combine during fertilization, the resulting zygote has the correct number of chromosomes for the species.

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