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Why do cells only contain half their genetic material in meiosis?

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A biologist marked a cell that he knew was about to undergo meiosis. A short time later he observed the four cells produced by the original marked cell; their chromosome numbers were 17, 17, 18, and 16. He knew these numbers indicated that something

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