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Why does crossing over rarely occur in mitosis?
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Why does crossing over rarely occur in mitosis?

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In prophase of mitosis the chromosome pairs do not come together to form a tetrad as they do in meiotic prophase I and so the chances of homologous chromosomes meeting and pairing in mitosis is greatly reduced
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