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How does crossing over increase genetic variation in organisms

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Crossing over allows each chromosome to be unique, which creates variation in every organism.
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Crossing over increases genetic variation because due to this, each of the homologous chromosomes get a new combination of traits/ genes and since a each cell has different homologous chromosomes, genetic variotion will occur

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