How many will the daughter cells have in Meiosis if the parent cells has 40 chromosomes?

Meiosis is a little different than mitosis. In mitosis, you get two cells at the end with the final number of chromosomes still at 40 in each cell. In meiosis, the cells divide twice: once to split up the genes into half, and then again so that each cell has only a quarter of the DNA. So, if the mother cell has 40 chromosomes, then the daughter cells will have 10 each.

Each combination of genes will be different for the daughter cells, but it will still be 10 chromosomes in the end. Meiosis takes a little longer than mitosis for that reason: the mother cell has four cells to produce. Other than that, the process of meiosis does not differ from mitosis.