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Crossing-over rarely occurs in mitosis, unlike meiosis. Which of the following is the likely reason?

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because it mitosis is creating identical copies of the cell this happens when we damage our cells and they need repairing but with meiosis this happens when creating sex cells so it is not creating identical copies it creating varients in the dna so you would have more varention in humans 
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